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US08971138B2 Method of screening static random access memory cells for positive bias temperature instability
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静态随机存取存储单元筛选正偏温度不稳定性的方法
- Patent Title: Method of screening static random access memory cells for positive bias temperature instability
- Patent Title (中): 静态随机存取存储单元筛选正偏温度不稳定性的方法
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Application No.: US13467517Application Date: 2012-05-09
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Publication No.: US08971138B2Publication Date: 2015-03-03
- Inventor: Anand Seshadri , Wah Kit Loh
- Applicant: Anand Seshadri , Wah Kit Loh
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Rose Alyssa Keagy; Frederick J. Telecky, Jr.
- Main IPC: G11C29/00
- IPC: G11C29/00 ; G11C29/50 ; G11C29/04 ; G11C29/06 ; G11C11/41

Abstract:
A method of screening complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor CMOS integrated circuits, such as integrated circuits including CMOS static random access memory (SRAM) cells, for n-channel transistors susceptible to transistor characteristic shifts over operating time. For the example of SRAM cells formed of cross-coupled CMOS inverters, static noise margin and writeability (Vtrip) screens are provided. Each of the n-channel transistors in the CMOS SRAM cells are formed within p-wells that are isolated from p-type semiconductor material in peripheral circuitry of the memory and other functions in the integrated circuit. Forward and reverse body node bias voltages are applied to the isolated p-wells of the SRAM cells under test to determine whether such operations as read disturb, or write cycles, disrupt the cells under such bias. Cells that are vulnerable to threshold voltage shift over time can thus be identified.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130058177A1 Method of Screening Static Random Access Memory Cells for Positive Bias Temperature Instability Public/Granted day:2013-03-07
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