Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system for improving the radiation tolerance of floating gate memories
- Patent Title (中): 提高浮栅存储器辐射耐受性的方法和系统
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Application No.: US14958202Application Date: 2015-12-03
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Publication No.: US09536620B2Publication Date: 2017-01-03
- Inventor: Matthew Kay , James David Ingalls , Matthew Gadlage , Adam Duncan , Andrew Howard
- Applicant: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
- Applicant Address: US DC Washington
- Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
- Current Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
- Current Assignee Address: US DC Washington
- Agent Christopher A. Monsey
- Main IPC: G11C11/34
- IPC: G11C11/34 ; G11C16/34 ; G11C16/10 ; G11C5/00 ; G11C29/50 ; G11C16/04 ; G11C16/26

Abstract:
A method of improving radiation tolerance of floating gate memories is provided herein. Floating gate memories can include a floating gate transistor or a block of floating gate transistors. A floating gate transistor can include a semiconductor region, a source region, a drain region, a floating gate region, a tunnel oxide region, an oxide-nitride-oxide region, and a control gate region. A floating gate transistor or block of floating gate transistors can be written to multiple times in order to accumulate charge on one or more floating gate regions in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. When exposed to radiation, a floating gate region can retain its charge above a certain voltage threshold. A block of floating gate transistors can communicate with an external device where the external device can read a state of the block of floating gate transistors in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160086676A1 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE RADIATION TOLERANCE OF FLOATING GATE MEMORIES Public/Granted day:2016-03-24
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