摘要:
NVM arrays include rows and columns of NVM cells comprising a floating gate and a four transistor storage element. Supply voltage for selected storage elements is turned off during a programming and an erase mode. Isolation transistors for each NVM cell or for each row of NVM cells may be used to control the supply voltage.
摘要:
A RF structure including a semiconductor chip with an RF element having an RF core with two electrically connected chip pads, including a chip carrier having two carrier pads connected to the two chip pads and including an antenna connected to the carrier pads and electrically connected to the chip pads and to the RF core. The antenna is formed of wires, printed conductors, seal rings or other structures on, below or above the top plane of the semiconductor chip. A primary element is provided where the RF element is a secondary element. The primary element occupies a primary region and the RF core of the secondary element occupies a secondary region where the secondary region is much smaller than the primary region. The RF core secondary region is formed with the same native processing as used for the primary element.
摘要:
A nonvolatile memory cell is provided. The memory cell includes a storage transistor and an injector in a well of an n-type conductivity. The well is formed in a semiconductor substrate of a p-type conductivity. The storage transistor comprises a source, a drain, a channel, and a charge storage region. The source and the drain are formed in the well and having the p-type conductivity with the channel of the well defined therebetween. The charge storage region is disposed over and insulated from the channel region by an insulator. Further provided are methods operating the memory cell, including means for injecting electrons from the channel through the insulator onto the charge storage region and means for injecting holes from the injector through the well through the channel through the insulator onto the charge storage region. The memory cell can be implemented in a conventional logic CMOS process.
摘要:
A high-voltage LDMOSFET includes a semiconductor substrate, in which a gate well is formed. A source well and a drain well are formed on either side of the gate well, and include insulating regions within them that do not reach the full depth. An insulating layer is disposed on the substrate, covering the gate well and a portion of the source well and the drain well. A conductive gate is disposed on the insulating layer. Biasing wells are formed adjacent the source well and the drain well. A deep well is formed in the substrate such that it communicates with the biasing wells and the gate well, while extending under the source well and the drain well, such as to avoid them. Biasing contacts at the top of the biasing wells bias the deep well, and therefore also the gate well.
摘要:
A memory device including a plurality of storage regions arranged with storage region intervals. A plurality of conductor lines are juxtaposed the storage region intervals. One or more isolations are provided, each isolation adjacent one or more conductor lines and juxtaposed one or more of the storage regions that are dummy storage regions. The storage regions are charge storage regions in memory cells and each memory cell further includes a first cell region, a second cell region and a cell channel juxtaposed the charge storage region and located between the first cell region and the second cell region. A first array region and a second array region are separated by a first one of the isolations; each array region includes one or more groups of the memory cells where each memory cell includes one of the storage regions.
摘要:
A semiconductor device comprising a memory region including one or more transistor string arrays, a logic region including one or more logic transistors and an isolation region for isolating the logic transistors. The string array includes a plurality, T, of bipolar junction transistors. The string array includes a common collector region for the T bipolar junction transistors, a common base region for the T bipolar junction transistors, a plurality of emitters, one emitter for each of the T bipolar junction transistors, a number, B, of base contacts for the T bipolar junction transistors where the base contacts electrically couple the common base region and where the number of base contacts, B, is less than the number of transistors, T.
摘要:
A management system for tracking elements through steps and stages of a chain employing fixed tags permanently attached to elements that progress through the steps and stages. The elements are tracked by the fixed tags from an initial stage, through multiple work-in-process stages to a final stage of the chain. The fixed tags include radio-frequency (RF) communication units that have wireless communication with RF communicators in one or more of the stages of the supply chain. The wireless communications between the RF tags and the RF communicators operate with a tag communication protocol that defines the operations and sequences for storing information into and retrieval of information from tags. The hierarchy of data storage in RF tags, in RF communicators and otherwise in storage locations in the system is controlled to operate within the memory hierarchy.
摘要:
A nonvolatile memory cell is provided. The cell has a charge filter, a tunneling gate, a ballistic gate, a charge storage layer, a source, and a drain with a channel defined between the source and drain. The charge filter permits transporting of charge carriers of one polarity type from the tunneling gate through the blocking material and the ballistic gate to the charge storage layer while blocking the transport of charge carriers of an opposite polarity from the ballistic gate to the tunneling gate. Further embodiments of the present invention provide a cell having a charge filter, a supplier gate, a tunneling gate, a ballistic gate, a source, a drain, a channel, and a charge storage layer. The present invention further provides an energy band engineering method permitting the memory cell be operated without suffering from disturbs, from dielectric breakdown, from impact ionization, and from undesirable RC effects.
摘要:
A method for controlling an operating mode of a portable electronic device having a first plane and a second plane connected together comprises forming a magnet in the first plane, forming a magnetic flux sensor in a position of the second plane corresponding to the magnet for sensing magnetic flux, and controlling the operating mode of the portable electronic device according to the sensing result of the magnetic flux sensor.
摘要:
A system for tracking elements employing fixed tags that are permanently attached internally or externally to elements. The tags include radio-frequency (RF) communication units that have wireless communication with RF communicators. The wireless communications between the RF tags and the RF communicators operate with a tag communication protocol that defines the operations and sequences for storing information into and retrieval of information from tags. Each communicator has a processor for controlling a security routine with the tag. Each tag has a tag memory having storage locations for storing security information, a controller for accessing the tag memory to access security information in response to the security routine and an I/O unit for electronic communication with the controller and for RF communication with the communicator.