Static random access memory device having interconnected stacks of transistors

    公开(公告)号:US10332588B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-25

    申请号:US15851531

    申请日:2017-12-21

    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosed technology, a SRAM device includes a first stack of transistors and a second stack of transistors arranged on a substrate. Each of the first and second stacks includes a pull-up transistor, a pull-down transistor and a pass transistor, where each of the transistors includes a horizontally extending channel. In each of the first and second stacks, the pull-up transistor and the pull-down transistor have a common gate electrode extending vertically therebetween, and the pass transistor has a gate electrode separated from the common gate electrode. A source/drain of each of the pull-up transistor and the pull-down transistor and a source/drain of the pass transistor included in one of the first stack and the second stack are electrically interconnected with the common gate electrode of the pull-up transistor and the pull-down transistor included in the other of the first stack and the second stack.

    INTEGRATED CIRCUIT POWER DISTRIBUTION NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20170294448A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-12

    申请号:US15479633

    申请日:2017-04-05

    Applicant: IMEC VZW

    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) power distribution network is disclosed. In one aspect, the IC includes a stack of layers formed on a substrate. The IC includes standard cells with parallel gate structures oriented in a direction y. Each cell includes an internal power pin for supplying a reference voltage to the cell. The stack includes metal layers in which lines are formed to route signals between cells. The lines in each metal layer have a preferred orientation that is orthogonal to that of the lines in an adjacent metal layer. A first layer is the lowest metal layer that has y as a preferred orientation while also providing routing resources for signal routing between the cells. A second layer is the nearest metal layer above this first layer. The IC includes a power distribution network for delivering the reference voltage to the power pin.

    Double-gate vertical transistor semiconductor device

    公开(公告)号:US10355128B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-16

    申请号:US15835703

    申请日:2017-12-08

    Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed that includes a substrate and at least a first, second, third, and fourth vertical transistor supported by the substrate. Each transistor comprises a vertical channel, a polarity gate electrode forming a polarity gate adapted to act on a first portion of the channel to affect a polarity of the channel, and a control gate electrode forming a control gate adapted to act on a second portion of the channel to control the electrical conductivity of the channel. The polarity gate electrode and the control gate electrode of each one of the transistors extend laterally from their respective gate and in mutually opposite directions, and the transistors are laterally spaced from each other and arranged such that the control gate electrodes of the first and third transistor face each other and the control gate electrodes of the second and fourth transistor face each other.

    Convolution Engine for Neural Networks
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200159809A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-21

    申请号:US16685892

    申请日:2019-11-15

    Applicant: IMEC VZW

    Abstract: A method and hardware system for mapping an input map of a convolutional neural network layer to an output map are disclosed. An array of processing elements are interconnected to support unidirectional dataflows through the array along at least three different spatial directions. Each processing element is adapted to combine values of dataflows along different spatial directions into a new value for at least one of the supported dataflows. For each data entry in the output map, a plurality of products from pairs of weights of a selected convolution kernel and selected data entries in the input map is provided and arranged into a plurality of associated partial sums. Products associated with a same partial sum are accumulated on the array and accumulated on the array into at least one data entry in the output map.

    METHODS FOR FORMING CONDUCTIVE PATHS AND VIAS

    公开(公告)号:US20180261497A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-13

    申请号:US15889043

    申请日:2018-02-05

    Applicant: IMEC VZW

    CPC classification number: H01L21/76802 H01L21/0337 H01L21/76843 H01L23/5226

    Abstract: A method of forming conductive paths and vias is disclosed. In one aspect, patterns of a hard mask layer are transferred into a dielectric layer by etching to form trenches. The trenches define locations for conductive paths of an upper metallization level. At least one trench is interrupted in a longitudinal direction by a block portion of the hard mask layer, the block portion defining the tip-to-tip location of a pair of the conductive paths to be formed. The trenches extend partially through the dielectric layer in regions exposed by the hard mask layer, thereby deepening first and the second holes to extend completely through the dielectric layer. After removing the hard mask layer, the deepened first and second holes and the trenches are filled with a conductive material to form the conductive paths in the trenches and to form the vias in the deepened first and second holes.

    Double-Gate Vertical Transistor Semiconductor Device

    公开(公告)号:US20180175193A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-21

    申请号:US15835703

    申请日:2017-12-08

    Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed that includes a substrate and at least a first, second, third, and fourth vertical transistor supported by the substrate. Each transistor comprises a vertical channel, a polarity gate electrode forming a polarity gate adapted to act on a first portion of the channel to affect a polarity of the channel, and a control gate electrode forming a control gate adapted to act on a second portion of the channel to control the electrical conductivity of the channel. The polarity gate electrode and the control gate electrode of each one of the transistors extend laterally from their respective gate and in mutually opposite directions, and the transistors are laterally spaced from each other and arranged such that the control gate electrodes of the first and third transistor face each other and the control gate electrodes of the second and fourth transistor face each other.

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