Abstract:
A memory device includes a memory cell on a first region of a substrate. An active region is in a second region neighboring the first region of the substrate, and an extension direction of the active region has an acute angle with the direction of the substrate. A transistor serving as a peripheral circuit is on the second region of the substrate. In the memory device, defects or failures due to a crystal defects or a dislocation of the substrate may decrease.
Abstract:
A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) in a frequency synthesizer generates an output signal having a target frequency by being coarse tuned in accordance with a channel code derived through a binary tree search. Thereafter, the output signal of the VCO may be further tuned using a phase lock loop (PLL) circuit. Each stage of the binary tree search includes a comparison step that determines a channel code bit, and another step that confirms that the channel code converges to a final channel code within an established stage range value.