POWER-ON-RESET CIRCUIT AND CORRESPONDING ELECTRONIC DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20210297074A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-23

    申请号:US17207382

    申请日:2021-03-19

    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.

    Non-volatile memory data bus
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11056180B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-06

    申请号:US16853036

    申请日:2020-04-20

    Abstract: A non-volatile memory integrated circuit has a memory plane organized into rows and into columns containing bit lines. The read amplifiers for each bit line are configured to generate an output signal on a read data channel. The read data channels respectively run through the memory plane along each bit line. Each read data channel is connected to all of the read amplifiers of the respective bit line.

    Structure and Method of Forming a Semiconductor Device

    公开(公告)号:US20210066510A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-04

    申请号:US16560810

    申请日:2019-09-04

    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.

    DEVICE OF PHYSICALLY UNCLONABLE FUNCTION WITH FLOATING GATE TRANSISTORS, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20200274723A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-27

    申请号:US16784495

    申请日:2020-02-07

    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.

    Reading circuit with a shifting stage and corresponding reading method

    公开(公告)号:US10127966B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-13

    申请号:US15389751

    申请日:2016-12-23

    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.

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