Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low-voltage fast-write PMOS NVSRAM cell
- Patent Title (中): 低压快写PMOS NVSRAM单元
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Application No.: US13965031Application Date: 2013-08-12
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Publication No.: US09177644B2Publication Date: 2015-11-03
- Inventor: Hsing-Ya Tsao , Peter Wung Lee
- Applicant: Hsing-Ya Tsao , Peter Wung Lee
- Assignee: Aplus Flash Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Aplus Flash Technology, Inc.
- Agent Fang Wu
- Main IPC: G11C14/00
- IPC: G11C14/00 ; G11C16/04 ; G11C16/16

Abstract:
This invention discloses a low-voltage fast-write 12T or 14T PMOS NVSRAM cell structure which comprises a 6T LV SRAM cell and one pairs of two 3T or 4T HV PMOS Flash strings. Due to reverse threshold voltage definition of PMOS and NMOS flash cell, this PMOS NVSRAM cell has the advantage over the NMOS NVSRAM cell to have the same data polarity between SRAM and Flash pairs during the data writing operation. In addition, this PMOS NVSRAM's PMOS Flash cell uses similar low-current FN-tunneling scheme as NMOS NVSRAM, thus the fast data program and erase can be achieved in a big density up to 100 Mb simultaneously. As a result, low power voltage operation of NVSRAM with 1.2V VDD can be much easier to be designed without coupling the FSL line to any VDD level during the flash data loading into SRAM cell during a power-on period.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140050025A1 LOW-VOLTAGE FAST-WRITE PMOS NVSRAM CELL Public/Granted day:2014-02-20
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