Invention Grant
US08525579B2 Electronic trimming circuit with reduced number of dedicated trimming pins
有权
电子微调电路,减少专用的修剪引脚数量
- Patent Title: Electronic trimming circuit with reduced number of dedicated trimming pins
- Patent Title (中): 电子微调电路,减少专用的修剪引脚数量
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Application No.: US13470760Application Date: 2012-05-14
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Publication No.: US08525579B2Publication Date: 2013-09-03
- Inventor: Giuseppe Scilla , Francesco Distefano
- Applicant: Giuseppe Scilla , Francesco Distefano
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza (MB)
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza (MB)
- Agency: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.
- Priority: ITMI2011A0880 20110518
- Main IPC: H01H37/76
- IPC: H01H37/76

Abstract:
An electronic trimming circuit carries out a trimming operation on portions of an integrated device. The circuit includes N trimmable interconnected resistances, each connected in parallel to a respective shunt fuse. N trimming transistors are each connected to a respective one of the shunt fuses to force therethrough substantially the whole current flowing in the respective trimming transistor. N bias networks are each functionally connected to a control terminal of a respective one of the trimming transistors to directly bias an active junction thereof. An externally driven heating device is thermally coupled with the active junctions of the trimming transistors adapted to raise the temperature thereof.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120293241A1 ELECTRONIC TRIMMING CIRCUIT WITH REDUCED NUMBER OF DEDICATED TRIMMING PINS Public/Granted day:2012-11-22
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