Abstract:
A voltage boosting device for speeding power-up of multilevel nonvolatile memories, including a voltage regulator (11) and a charge pump (13) and having an output terminal (10); the voltage regulator (11) having a regulation terminal connected to the output terminal (10), and an output (16) supplying a control voltage (V L ); the read charge pump (13) having an output connected to the output terminal (10) and supplying a read voltage (V R ). The device further includes an enable circuit (12) connected to the output (16) and having a pump enable output (17) connected to a charge pump enable terminal (13) and supplying a pump enable signal (PE). The pump enable signal (PE) is set at a first logic level so as to activate the charge pump (13) when the read voltage (V R ) is lower than a nominal value. In addition, the device generates a power-up sync signal (ATDS) which activates a read operation when the read voltage (V R ) reaches its nominal value and a chip enable signal (CE) is set at an active value.
Abstract:
The present invention relates a transistor comprising a substrate region (14) of a first type (P) of conductivity in a semiconductor material layer of the same type (P) of conductivity, at least a first contact region (13) of said first type (P+) of conductivity inside said substrate region (14) and adjacent to a first terminal (C) of said transistor, a well (11) of second type (N) of conductivity placed inside said substrate region (14), characterized in that said well (11) of second type (N) of conductivity comprises at least a second contact region (12) of a second type of conductivity (N+) adjacent to a region of a second terminal (B) of said transistor, and a plurality of third contact regions (10) of said first type of conductivity (P+) adjacent to a plurality of regions of a third terminal (E1, ..., E3) of said transistor interposed each one (10) other (12) by proper insulating shapes (20).
Abstract:
A method for programming a multilevel non-volatile memory with a reduced number of pins, wherein at least one address pin (A1, A2) of the memory is used as a write synchronization signal.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a circuit structure (1) for reading data contained in an electrically programmable/erasable integrated non-volatile memory device, comprising a matrix (2) of memory cells (3) and at least one reference cell (4) for comparison with a memory cell (3) during a reading phase. The reference cell (4) is incorporated in a reference cells sub-matrix (5) which is structurally independent of the matrix (2) of memory cells (3). Also provided is a conduction path between the matrix (2) and the sub-matrix (5), which path includes bit lines (b1ref) of the submatrix (5) of reference cells (4) extended continuously into the matrix (2) of memory cells (3)
Abstract:
The invention relates to a circuit structure (1) for programming data in reference cells (3) of an electrically programmable/erasable integrated non-volatile memory device, comprising a matrix of multi-level memory cells and at least one corresponding reference cell provided for comparison with a respective memory cell during the read phase. The reference cell (3) is incorporated, along with other cells of the same type, to a reference cell sub-matrix (4) which is structurally independent of the memory cell matrix and directly accessed from outside in the DMA mode. The bit lines of the sub-matrix (4) branch off to a series of switches (9) which are individually operated by respective control signals REF(i) issued from a logic circuit (8) with the purpose of selectively connecting the bit lines to a single external I/O terminal (10) through a single addressing line (11) of the access DMA mode.