Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor device and method of writing data
- Patent Title (中): 半导体器件和写入数据的方法
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Application No.: US14553398Application Date: 2014-11-25
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Publication No.: US09576676B2Publication Date: 2017-02-21
- Inventor: Yasuo Kanda
- Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- Priority: JP2014-001805 20140108
- Main IPC: G11C17/14
- IPC: G11C17/14 ; G11C17/16 ; G11C17/18

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes: an electric fuse circuit including first electric fuses used as data bits and second electric fuses used as polarity bits; and a write circuit configured to selectively pass a current through the first electric fuses and the second electric fuses and thereby write data in the electric fuse circuit. The write circuit is configured to perform a first process when number of write bits included in write data is larger than a value obtained by dividing total number of bits in the write data by 2. The first process includes writing of inverted write data in a plurality of first electric fuses, and including writing of inversion data in one of the second electric fuses. The plurality of first electric fuses are part of the first electric fuses. The inverted write data is inverted data of the write data. The inversion data represents inversion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150194222A1 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF WRITING DATA Public/Granted day:2015-07-09
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