摘要:
A method and structure for a semiconductor device which includes a substrate comprising trenches, a plurality of devices on the substrate isolated by the trenches, conductive sidewall spacers within the trenches, and an insulator filling the trenches between the conductive sidewall spacers. A first conductive sidewall spacer is electrically connected to a first device of said plurality of devices and a second conductive sidewall spacer is electrically connected to a second device of the plurality of devices. The first device can be biased independently of the second device. A contact extends above a surface of the substrate. A first contact abuts a first device and a first conductive sidewall spacer. An insulator separates the conductive sidewall spacers. A first contact may be equidistant between the first conductor and the second conductor. The conductive sidewall spacers comprise field shields.
摘要:
A method for fabricating a MOSFET device including a halo implant comprising providing a semiconductor substrate, a gate insulator layer, a conductor layer, an overlying silicide layer, and an insulating cap; patterning and etching the silicide layer and the insulating cap; providing insulating spacers along sides of said silicide layer and insulating cap; implanting node and bitline N+ diffusion regions; patterning a photoresist layer to protect the node diffusion region and supporting PFET source and drain regions and expose the bitline diffusion region and NFET source and drain regions; etching exposed spacer material from the side of said silicide layer and insulating cap; implanting a P-type impurity halo implant into the exposed bitline diffusion region and supporting NFET source and drain regions; and stripping the photoresist layer and providing an insulating spacer along the exposed side of said silicide layer and insulating cap.
摘要:
An isolation region for a memory array in which the isolation region includes at least one trench region having sidewalls that extend to a bottom surface and a slit region formed beneath the final trench region, wherein the slit region is narrower than the overlying trench regions and has a void formed intentionally therein is provided.
摘要:
A method for forming an isolation trench region in a semiconductor substrate includes providing the trench region in the semiconductor substrate, adding spacer material at least to sidewalls of the trench region, and etching the trench region at a bottom surface thereof to extend the trench region below the bottom surface and form a crevice region. The spacer material may be subsequently heated such that the spacer material flows from the sidewalls and into the crevice region.
摘要:
A way of dynamically modifying error recovery on a communications controller to operate at the lowest power mode allowed by current error rate conditions. When operating conditions are good and a small number of errors are detected, a low power error detection/correction mode is entered saving battery life. The low power error correction mechanism runs at a slower frequency and lower power than the high power mechanism and maintains the same data rate for the controller, thus saving power. Selecting the controller error (power) mode may be externally, such as by a person using a control dial on a cellular telephone when the voice data gets too noisy. Alternatively, the selection can be automatic, a critical error level detector internally making the selection.
摘要:
An integrated circuit such as an ASIC device having partitioned functional units with independent threshold voltage control. A first partition is always operated in a normal mode, while subsequent partitions are maintained in a standby mode until a transition is detected at the input of the first partition. The subsequent partitions are switched to the normal mode by lowering the body voltage applied to the devices with each partition. A pulse stretcher is used to keep a partition in a normal mode for a predetermined period of time after the transition is detected.
摘要:
A low powering apparatus for automatic reduction of power in active and standby modes is disclosed. The low powering apparatus includes a state detector, a margins of safety device and a positioning device. The state detector detects a first or second state, such as a standby state and an active state, that has predominated in a recent past. The margins of safety device indicates safe low power margins in correlation to the detected first or second state. The positioning device adjusts the power level according to the outputs of the state detector and margins of safety device. Thus, the low powering apparatus minimizes the power level of a system at the first or second state without compromising full performance of the system.
摘要:
Use of different materials for different conductive films forming plates or electrodes of one or more capacitors formed in a trench in a body of semiconductor materials allow connections to be made selectively to the plates. The films may be undercut by different etchants at respective connection apertures to avoid formation of connections or connections made by doped polysilicon of different conductivities forming connections to some plates of similarly doped polysilicon and blocking diode junctions with oppositely doped polysilicon. The blocking diodes may include a compensation implant to adjust reverse breakdown characteristics and provide transient and electrostatic discharge protection.
摘要:
A method and system for providing communication between electronic devices that uses the phase of data transmitted between the devices to indicate logical one and zero values. The method and system has the added benefit of relieving the traditional limitations of voltage communication restraints between devices having differing core voltages (i.e. Differing generations).
摘要:
An automatic driver adjuster and methods using the same are provided that modify off-chip drivers based on load characteristics. The preferred embodiments are preferably automatic and require little or no human intervention. Preferred embodiments of the current invention analyze and determine the impedance of a node and adjust a number of output drivers in response to the impedance of the node, or analyze a resultant waveform of the node, caused by an input waveform, and adjust a number of output drivers in response to the resultant waveform of the node.