Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling two twin memory cells each comprising a floating-gate transistor comprising a state control gate, in series with a select transistor comprising a select control gate common to the two memory cells, the drains of the floating-gate transistors being connected to a same bit line, the method comprising steps of programming the first memory cell by hot-electron injection, by applying a positive voltage to the bit line and a positive voltage to the state control gate of the first memory cell, and simultaneously, of applying to the state control gate of the second memory cell a positive voltage capable of causing a programming current to pass through the second memory cell, without switching it to a programmed state.
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.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to an integrated circuit comprising a nonvolatile memory on a semiconductor substrate. The integrated circuit comprises a doped isolation layer implanted in the depth of the substrate, isolated conductive trenches reaching the isolation layer and forming gates of selection transistors of memory cells, isolation trenches perpendicular to the conductive trenches and reaching the isolation layer, and conductive lines parallel to the conductive trenches, extending on the substrate and forming control gates of charge accumulation transistors of memory cells. The isolation trenches and the isolated conductive trenches delimit a plurality of mini wells in the substrate, the mini wells electrically isolated from each other, each having a floating electrical potential and comprising two memory cells.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit comprises a memory device including a memory plane having non-volatile memory cells and being non-observable in read mode from outside the memory device, a controller, internal to the memory device, configured to detect the memorized content of the memory plane, and when the memorized content contains locking content, automatically lock any access to the memory plane from outside the memory device, the integrated circuit then being in a locked status, and authorize delivery outside the memory device of at least one sensitive datum stored in the memory plane.
Abstract:
In an embodiment a device includes a supply node configured to receive a supply voltage, an output node configured to provide an output voltage, a plurality of switching stages coupled to the supply node and to the output node, a sensing circuit coupled to the supply node and configured to provide at least one sensing signal based on the supply voltage and a driver circuit coupled to the sensing circuit and to the plurality of switching stages, wherein the driver circuit is configured to provide the drive signal based on at least one sensing signal exceeding or failing to exceed at least one reference voltage level and to selectively bypass a selected number of the plurality of switching stages based on the drive signal thereby varying an output voltage level at the output node.
Abstract:
An embodiment system comprises a physical unclonable function device, wherein the device comprises a first assembly of non-volatile memory cells each having a selection transistor embedded in a semiconductor substrate and a depletion-type state transistor having a control gate and a floating gate that are electrically connected, the state transistors having respective effective threshold voltages belonging to a common random distribution, and a processing circuit configured to deliver, to an output interface of the device, a group of output data based on a reading of the effective threshold voltages of the state transistors of the memory cells of the first assembly.
Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of making a semiconductor device includes simultaneously etching a semiconductor layer and a conductive layer to form a self-aligned diode region disposed on an insulating layer, where the semiconductor layer has a first conductivity type. The method further includes etching through first openings of a mask layer to form first implantation surfaces on the semiconductor layer and to form a plurality of projecting regions including conductive material of the conductive layer over the semiconductor layer. The method further includes using the plurality of projecting regions as a part of a first implantation mask, performing a first implantation of dopants having a second conductivity type into the semiconductor layer, to form a sequence of PN junctions forming diodes in the semiconductor layer. The diodes vertically extend from an upper surface of the semiconductor layer to the insulating layer.
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.
Abstract:
Each memory cell is of the type with charge trapping in a dielectric interface and includes a state transistor selectable by a vertical selection transistor buried in a substrate and comprising a buried selection gate. The columns of memory cells include pairs of twin memory cells. The two selection transistors of a pair of twin memory cells have a common selection gate and the two state transistors of a pair of twin memory cells have a common control gate. The device also includes, for each pair of twin memory cells, a dielectric region situated between the control gate and the substrate and overlapping the common selection gate so as to form on either side of the selection gate the two charge-trapping dielectric interfaces respectively dedicated to the two twin memory cells.
Abstract:
A reading circuit for a charge-retention circuit stage is provided with a storage capacitor coupled between a first biasing terminal and a floating node, and a discharge element coupled between the floating node and a reference terminal. The reading circuit further has an operational amplifier having a first input terminal that is coupled to the floating node and receives a reading voltage, a second input terminal receives a reference voltage, and an output terminal on which it supplies an output voltage, the value of which is a function of the comparison between the reading voltage and the reference voltage and indicative of a residual charge in the storage capacitor. A shifting stage shifts the value of the reading voltage of the floating node, before the comparison is made between the reading voltage and the reference voltage for supplying the output voltage.