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公开(公告)号:US11546177B2
公开(公告)日:2023-01-03
申请号:US16784495
申请日:2020-02-07
Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
Inventor: Francesco La Rosa
Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a physically unclonable function device includes a set of floating gate transistor pairs, floating gate transistors of the set of floating gate transistor pairs having a randomly distributed effective threshold voltage belonging to a common random distribution; a differential read circuit configured to measure a threshold difference between the effective threshold voltages of floating gate transistors of floating gate transistor pairs of the set of floating gate transistor pairs, and to identify a floating gate transistor pair in which the measured threshold difference is smaller than a margin value as being an unreliable floating gate transistor pair; and a write circuit configured to shift the effective threshold voltage of a floating gate transistor of the unreliable floating gate transistor pair to be inside the common random distribution.
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公开(公告)号:US11171644B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-09
申请号:US17207382
申请日:2021-03-19
Inventor: Antonino Conte , Francesco Tomaiuolo , Francesco La Rosa
Abstract: An embodiment power-on-reset circuit, having a power supply input to receive a power supply voltage, generates a reset signal with a value switching upon the power supply voltage crossing a POR detection level. The power-on-reset circuit has: a PTAT stage having a left branch and a right branch and generating a current equilibrium condition between the currents circulating in the left and right branches upon the power supply voltage reaching the POR detection level; and an output stage coupled to the PTAT stage and generating the reset signal, with the value switching at the occurrence of the current equilibrium condition for the PTAT stage. The power-on-reset circuit further comprises a detection-level generation stage, coupled to the PTAT stage as a central branch thereof to define the value of the POR detection level.
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公开(公告)号:US10686046B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-16
申请号:US16513145
申请日:2019-07-16
Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
Inventor: Francesco La Rosa , Stephan Niel , Arnaud Regnier , Julien Delalleau
IPC: H01L29/788 , H01L29/423 , H01L21/28 , H01L29/66 , H01L27/11521 , G11C16/04 , G11C16/14 , H01L21/3205 , H01L21/3213 , H01L27/11524 , H01L29/78 , H01L21/306
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a memory cell comprising a vertical selection gate extending in a trench made in a substrate, a floating gate extending above the substrate, and a horizontal control gate extending above the floating gate, wherein the floating gate also extends above a portion of the vertical selection gate over a non-zero overlap distance. Application mainly to the production of a split gate memory cell programmable by hot-electron injection.
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公开(公告)号:US10541270B2
公开(公告)日:2020-01-21
申请号:US16004195
申请日:2018-06-08
Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
Inventor: Francesco La Rosa , Stephan Niel , Arnaud Regnier
Abstract: The array of diodes comprises a matrix plane of diodes arranged according to columns in a first direction and according to rows in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The said diodes comprise a cathode region of a first type of conductivity and an anode region of a second type of conductivity, the said cathode and anode regions being superposed and disposed on an insulating layer situated on top of a semiconductor substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20190371805A1
公开(公告)日:2019-12-05
申请号:US16542511
申请日:2019-08-16
Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
Inventor: Francesco La Rosa , Stephan Niel , Arnaud Regnier
IPC: H01L27/11563 , H01L27/11536
Abstract: A memory device includes a first state transistor and a second state transistor having a common control gate. A first selection transistor is buried in the semiconductor body and coupled to the first state transistor so that current paths of the first selection transistor and first state transistor are coupled in series. A second selection transistor is buried in the semiconductor body and coupled to the second state transistor so that current paths of the second selection transistor and second state transistor are coupled in series. The first and second selection transistors have a common buried selection gate. A dielectric region is located between the common control gate and the semiconductor body. A first bit line is coupled to the first state transistor and a second bit line is coupled to the second state transistor.
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公开(公告)号:US10128314B2
公开(公告)日:2018-11-13
申请号:US15398228
申请日:2017-01-04
Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
Inventor: Philippe Boivin , Francesco La Rosa , Julien Delalleau
IPC: H01L21/8224 , H01L21/336 , H01L21/337 , H01L27/24 , H01L29/732 , H01L29/66 , H01L45/00
Abstract: The disclosure relates to an integrated circuit comprising a transistor comprising first and second conduction terminals and a control terminal. The integrated circuit further comprises a stack of a first dielectric layer, a conductive layer, and a second dielectric layer, the first conduction terminal comprising a first semiconductor region formed in the first dielectric layer, the control terminal comprising a second semiconductor region formed in the conductive layer, and the second conduction terminal comprising a third semiconductor region formed in the second dielectric layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20180294313A1
公开(公告)日:2018-10-11
申请号:US16004195
申请日:2018-06-08
Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
Inventor: Francesco La Rosa , Stephan Niel , Arnaud Regnier
CPC classification number: H01L27/2409 , H01L27/1203 , H01L27/2463 , H01L45/04 , H01L45/06 , H01L45/1233 , H01L45/16
Abstract: The array of diodes comprises a matrix plane of diodes arranged according to columns in a first direction and according to rows in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The said diodes comprise a cathode region of a first type of conductivity and an anode region of a second type of conductivity, the said cathode and anode regions being superposed and disposed on an insulating layer situated on top of a semiconductor substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US09984770B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-29
申请号:US15140997
申请日:2016-04-28
Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
Inventor: Francesco La Rosa , Gineuve Alieri
CPC classification number: G11C29/52 , G06F11/1048 , G06F11/1068 , G11C29/4401 , G11C29/70 , G11C29/72 , G11C29/76 , G11C29/82 , G11C2029/0409 , H03M13/2906
Abstract: A method can be used for managing the operation of a non-volatile memory equipped with a system for correction of a single error and for detection of a double error. In the case of the detection of a defective bit line of the memory plane, a redundant bit line is assigned and the values of the bits of the memory cells of the defective line are copied into the memory cells of the redundant line and are inverted in the case of the detection of double errors by the system, or corrected by the system in the presence of single errors.
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公开(公告)号:US09941010B2
公开(公告)日:2018-04-10
申请号:US15365367
申请日:2016-11-30
Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
Inventor: Francesco La Rosa
CPC classification number: G11C16/08 , G11C8/08 , G11C8/10 , G11C8/12 , G11C16/14 , G11C16/16 , G11C16/26
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a memory including a memory array with at least two rows of memory cells, a first driver coupled to a control line of the first row of memory cells, and a second driver coupled to a control line of the second row of memory cells. The first driver is made in a first well, the second driver is made in a second well electrically insulated from the first well, and the two rows of memory cells are produced in a memory array well electrically insulated from the first and second wells.
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公开(公告)号:US20180091094A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-29
申请号:US15436817
申请日:2017-02-19
Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
Inventor: Francesco La Rosa
CPC classification number: H03K3/0315 , G05F3/262 , G11C7/062 , H03K3/011 , H03L1/00 , H03L5/00 , H03L7/0995
Abstract: A device and method can be used to manage the operation of a ring oscillator circuit. A master oscillator circuit generates a master supply voltage. The master supply voltage associated with a stable oscillation rate of the master oscillator circuit. The master oscillator circuit is supplied with current and is structurally identical to the ring oscillator circuit. A capacitive circuit is loaded with a load voltage originating from the master supply voltage. In response to a control signal, the ring oscillator circuit is supplied with a current controlled by a voltage delivered by the capacitive circuit, in such a way as to provide a stable oscillation rate for the ring oscillator circuit.
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