摘要:
A device includes a first line at the supply voltage; a second line at the boost voltage; a booster stage; a supply detecting stage connected to the first line and generating a first level signal when the supply voltage exceeds a first predetermined level; a boost detecting stage connected to the second line and generating a second level signal when the boost voltage exceeds a second predetermined level; a regulating stage enabled by the boost detecting stage; and a pump control stage, which generates a regulating enabling signal for the regulating stage in the absence of the first level signal and in the presence of an enabling signal enabling the boost condition. The regulating stage generates a regulating signal in the presence of the second level signal and the regulating enabling signal, when the boost voltage exceeds a third predetermined level; and the pump control stage generates a pump activating signal for the booster stage in the absence of the first level signal and the regulating signal.
摘要:
A reading circuit for a multibit register has a differential stage that is configured as an output latch by one of two control phases required by the circuit after the discrimination phase of a reading cycle a single NOR gate, the output of which is provided with anti-overshoot means, enables the performance of a reading cycle. An input of the differential stage, is connectable to a common sensing line to which all the cells of the register are coupled in an OR configuration, while the other input is connectable to a reference current generator.
摘要:
A reading circuit includes, for each bit line of a matrix of memory cells, a controllable switching element which can connect the bit line to a voltage source in response to a control signal applied to a control terminal thereof, a detector stage sensitive to the flow of current through the bit line, and a driving stage including two field-effect transistors connected in the inverter configuration with the input of the inverter connected to the bit line and with the output of the inverter connected to the control terminal of the controllable switching element. In order to charge the capacitance associated with the bit line rapidly but without causing oscillatory phenomena, the driving stage includes circuitry for reducing the gain of the feedback loop formed by the inverter and by the controllable switching element.
摘要:
A programmable cell and a multibit register composed of a plurality of such cells, specifically for performing a coincidence check between a certain code permanently recorded in the cell or cells and a logic configuration present on a pair or on a plurality of pairs of control lines are disclosed. Each cell has two branches connected in OR configuration to a common sensing line of the cell or of the multibit register. The logic states to be tested for coincidence are applied in a complemented form through a pair of lines to each cell, that is to the two branches of the cell. Each cell, permanently programmed in one or the other of its branches, intrinsically performs a comparison between its permanently programmed logic configuration and the configuration of the complemented control lines associated therewith. A great simplification is achieved in the overall circuitry of a redundance or reconfiguration system.
摘要:
A non-volatile electronic memory device is integrated on a semiconductor and is of the Flash EEPROM type with a NAND architecture including at least one memory matrix divided into physical sectors, intended as smallest erasable units, and organized in rows or word lines and columns or bit lines of memory cells. At least one row or word line of a given physical sector is electrically connected to at least one row or word line of an adjacent physical sector to form a single logic sector being erasable, with the source terminals of the corresponding cells of the pair of connected rows referring to a same selection line of a source line.
摘要:
A non-volatile electronic memory device is integrated on a semiconductor and is of the Flash EEPROM type with a NAND architecture including at least one memory matrix divided into physical sectors, intended as smallest erasable units, and organized in rows or word lines and columns or bit lines of memory cells. At least one row or word line of a given physical sector is electrically connected to at least one row or word line of an adjacent physical sector to form a single logic sector being erasable, with the source terminals of the corresponding cells of the pair of connected rows referring to a same selection line of a source line.
摘要:
A non-volatile electronic memory device is integrated on a semiconductor and is of the Flash EEPROM type with a NAND architecture including at least one memory matrix divided into physical sectors, intended as smallest erasable units, and organized in rows or word lines and columns or bit lines of memory cells. At least one row or word line of a given physical sector is electrically connected to at least one row or word line of an adjacent physical sector to form a single logic sector being erasable, with the source terminals of the corresponding cells of the pair of connected rows referring to a same selection line of a source line.
摘要:
A method for accessing, in reading, programming, and erasing a semiconductor-integrated non-volatile memory device of the Flash EEPROM type with a NAND architecture having at least one memory matrix organized in rows or word lines and columns or bit lines, and wherein, for the memory, a plurality of additional address pins are provided. The method provides both an access protocol of the asynchronous type and a protocol of the extended type allowing to address, directly and in parallel, a memory extended portion by loading an address register associated with the additional pins in two successive clock pulses. A third multi-sequential access mode and a parallel additional bus referring to the additional address pins are also provided to allow a double addressing mode, sequential and in parallel.
摘要:
A configuration terminal for integrated devices includes a first and a second portion structurally independent and connected to respective first and second terminals and it has at least one contact terminal suitable to be selectively connected to such first and second terminals. Also a method configures an integrated device that includes a plurality of address pads and respective supply pins. The method includes: realizing at least one configuration terminal having a first and a second portion structurally independent and connected to at least one contact terminal; providing the contact of such first and second portions with respective terminals; and configuring the device by a short-circuiting of the contact terminal with at least one of said terminals.
摘要:
A non-volatile memory electronic device is integrated on a semiconductor and is of the Flash EEPROM type with an architecture of the NAND type including at least one memory matrix divided into sectors being singularly erasable and organized in rows or word lines and columns or bit lines of memory cells. Advantageously, the matrix may include logic sectors wherein pairs of rows or word lines are electrically short-circuited and refer to a single biasing terminal, source terminals of the associated cells of each pair of rows associated with a same source select line referring to a corresponding biasing terminal, and at least one pair of independent drain select lines, each of the rows and of the lines being provided with metallization shunts to by-pass groups of bit lines and/or to speed up the propagation times of the biasing in the corresponding logic sector.