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- Patent Title: Silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon based multi level non-volatile memory device and methods of operation thereof
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Application No.: US16827948Application Date: 2020-03-24
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Publication No.: US11017851B1Publication Date: 2021-05-25
- Inventor: Venkataraman Prabhakar , Krishnaswamy Ramkumar , Vineet Agrawal , Long Hinh , Swatilekha Saha , Santanu Kumar Samanta , Michael Amundson , Ravindra Kapre
- Applicant: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
- Current Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Main IPC: G11C11/56
- IPC: G11C11/56 ; G06N3/063 ; G11C16/04 ; G11C16/08 ; G11C16/34 ; G11C16/24 ; G11C16/26 ; G11C16/16

Abstract:
A semiconductor device that has a semiconductor-oxide-nitride-oxide-semiconductor (SONOS) based non-volatile memory (NVM) array including NVM cells arranged in rows and columns, in which NVM transistors of the NVM cells are configured to store N×analog values corresponding to the N×levels of their drain current (ID) or threshold voltage (VT) levels, digital-to-analog (DAC) function that receives and converts digital signals from external devices, column multiplexor (mux) function that is configured to select and combine the analog value read from the NVM cells, and analog-to-digital (ADC) function that is configured to convert analog results of the column mux function to digital values and output the digital values.
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