CMOS flip-flop having non-volatile storage

Details CMOS flip-flop having non-volatile storage CMOS flip-flop having non-volatile storage

1997-03-14

1999-06-15

Wambach, Margaret Rose

Electrical pulse counters, pulse dividers, or shift registers: c

Shift register

Multirank

377 81, 327200, 327218, 257315, G11C 1900

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059129379

ABSTRACT:
A flip-flop includes non-volatile storage of a bit for encryption purposes or other applications. The non-volatile bit remains in the flip-flop, substantially unaltered, irrespective of normal flip-flop operation, and is available to be recalled whenever it is needed. The flip-flop is implemented using a pair of CMOS cells. Each cell includes a floating gate formed by connecting the gates of an n-mos transistor and a p-mos transistor. One of the two floating gates is selectively charged by hot electron injection, thereby raising the threshold of that cell. Depending upon which of the two cells is programmed by this process, the flip-flop outputs a logic one or a logic zero during a recall mode.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4754432 (1988-06-01), Topich
patent: 5487037 (1996-01-01), Lee
patent: 5760603 (1998-06-01), Zhou

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