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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179189 | Trimming circuit A trimming circuit is provided. The trimming circuit had at least a trimming cell, and each of the at least trimming cell includes three current paths and a fuse. A first one of the current paths is interrupted when a second one of the current paths is uninterrupted... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8149044 | Trimmer circuit and method A trimmer circuit is so configured that an electronic device will break down to produce a high current to trim a fuse. The electronic device is selectively configured to have a breakdown voltage lower than an applied voltage, for the trigger of its breakdown to be c... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8058921 | Fuse circuits A fuse circuit includes a fuse having an intact state and a blown state. The fuse can be switched to the blown state by enabling a blowing current to flow through the fuse. The fuse is coupled between a first transistor and a second transistor in series. The first t... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054124 | Programmable electronics An electronic device with polarity reversal protected connections and irreversibly interruptible programming connections, wherein the interruption is performed through safety elements provided in the programming paths, behind which safety elements diodes are dispose... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7973590 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a first transmission line and a second transmission line disposed at different layers; a contact fuse coupled with the first transmission line and the second transmission line; a power driver configured to apply an electric stress to ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7956671 | Circuit structure and method for programming and re-programming a low power, multiple states, electronic fuse (e-fuse) In one embodiment of an e-fuse programming/re-programming circuit, the e-fuse has two short high atomic diffusion resistance conductor layers positioned on opposite sides and at a same end of a long low atomic diffusion resistance conductor layer. A voltage source i... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7940116 | Fuse circuit and semiconductor device including the same A fuse circuit may include a fuse section which generates a fuse control signal at an output terminal of the fuse circuit in response to a power-up signal according to a status of a fuse in the fuse section; and a current path break section which detects the status ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940113 | Fuse trimming circuit with higher reliability A fuse trimming circuit includes trimming pads, a fuse resistance, an input circuit and current limit units. The fuse resistance is configured to be connected to the trimming pads and blown out by a trimming current which flows through the trimming pads. The input c... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940114 | Semiconductor device and offset voltage adjusting method A semiconductor device includes a fuse section having a plurality of fuse circuits configured to generate switch control signals; and an offset adjusting section configured to adjust an offset voltage of a differential amplifier based on the switch control signals s... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940115 | Fuse circuit for semiconductor integrated circuit and control method of the same A fuse circuit for a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a control unit configured to activate a fuse set control signal in response to an external command signal, and a plurality of fuse sets, each configured so that power is supplied to internal fuses in res... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7915949 | Implementing eFuse resistance determination before initiating eFuse blow A method and an eFuse programming circuit for implementing resistance determination of an eFuse before initiating eFuse blow, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. An eFuse on a chip is used to set current flow through a known res... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911258 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device, redundancy system, and redundancy method for latching and transmitting fuse data A semiconductor integrated circuit device including a fuse latch circuit including a fuse and a latch circuit for latching fuse data held in the fuse, a fuse counter circuit for counting the number of transfers of the fuse data, and a control circuit including a tra... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7902902 | Anti-fuse repair control circuit for preventing stress on circuit parts The present invention relates to an anti-fuse repair control circuit which regulates transmission of a power voltage and a back-bias voltage that are converted to repair an anti-fuse to a circuit part. As such, the present invention prevents the influence of a high ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7902903 | Programmable efuse and sense circuit A circuit for electric fuses includes circuits for sensing status and programming that have separate paths for each operation. The circuit includes a plurality of electrically programmable fuses and, associated with each fuse, a switch for coupling a first terminal ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7888988 | Fuse circuit A fuse circuit includes a first power supply line, a second power supply line, a first current source connected between the first power supply line and an output terminal, a second current source connected between the second power supply line and the output terminal... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7804352 | Multi-level anti-fuse and methods of operating and fabricating the same Provided may be a multi-level anti-fuse and methods of fabricating and operating the same. The multi-level anti-fuse may include at least three anti-fuses having a plurality of anti-fuses connected in parallel constituting a parallel connection structure and at leas... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7791402 | Electric fuse determination circuit and determination method An electrical fuse determination circuit that can speedily and reliably incorporate an electrical fuse data and improve a reliability of electrical fuse device, includes a first electrical fuse device of which one end connects with a higher voltage, a second electri... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7764108 | Electrical fuse circuit A gate of a MOS transistor connected to a fuse device in series is controlled by an AND circuit connected to the same power source as the fuse device is connected, thereby pulling down one input of the AND circuit to a ground. Thus, misprogramming of the fuse device... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7760008 | Digital trimming in a microelectronic device Digital trimming logic is included in a microelectronic device of a type that produces an output signal in response to an input signal and a threshold signal. Trimming logic values are produced in response to a clock signal that is applied to the device in a trimmin... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7737763 | Virtual electronic fuse apparatus and methodology A virtual electronic fuse apparatus and methodology are disclosed that permit the state of an electronic fuse to change from an un-blown state to a blown state and then back to a virtual un-blown state. In one embodiment, the electronic fuse may change from the virt... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733158 | Trim fuse circuit capable of disposing trim conducting pads on scribe lines of wafer A trim fuse circuit includes a metal fuse, a trim pad coupled to the first end of the metal fuse, a first transistor coupled to the first end of the metal fuse, a second transistor coupled to the second end of the metal fuse, an inverter coupled to the second end of... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7719342 | Input latch circuit having fuses for adjusting a setup and hold time An input latch circuit of a semiconductor device includes a setup time adjusting unit configured to selectively delay a clock signal and a hold time adjusting unit configured to selectively delay an input signal. The input latch circuit also includes a latch unit co... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7696810 | Reference current source circuit and infrared signal processing circuit The reference current source circuit (10) is provided with a current source circuit (1), a trimming fuse (3), a switching circuit (2) which connects/disconnects the current source circuit (1) and/from the trimming fuse (3), ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7679426 | Transistor antifuse device In one embodiment, a method provides a bipolar junction transistor that is coupled to a first power supply. A second power supply is utilized to turn on the bipolar junction transistor. And, the bipolar junction transistor is overdriven. ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7663425 | Fuse option circuit A fuse option circuit including a fuse, a control switch, a latch, and a logical operational controller is provided. The latch stores a selected level. The logical operational controller outputs a selected result signal and feedbacks a control signal to the control ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7656220 | Semiconductor device employing fuse circuit and method for selecting fuse circuit system Disclosed are a semiconductor device capable of reducing the number of program fuses used therein, and a fuse circuit selection method capable of reducing the number of program fuses. The semiconductor device includes: a fuse circuit (11) and an entire invers... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7652521 | Integrated circuit, and apparatus and method for production thereof An integrated circuit includes a trimming signal creating section, disposed downstream of a trimming circuit in which a number of fuses are arranged in alignment, creating a trimming signal corresponding to the trimming value on the basis of a signal output from sai... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7622982 | Electrical fuse device The invention provides an electrical fuse device comprising: a plurality of fuse cores, each having an electrical fuse element and a switching element serially connected to the electrical fuse element; a program control circuit generating a program shift signal by s... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7592855 | Trimming circuit and semiconductor device A trimming circuit is disclosed. The trimming circuit includes a first trimming circuit having resistors and fuses, and a second trimming circuit having a resistor, an NMOS transistor, and a control circuit. The control circuit includes an inverter circuit and a ser... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7589581 | Circuit for adjusting reference voltage using fuse trimming A binary bidirectional trimming circuit is disclosed. The trimming circuit includes: a first resistor set having 4 resistors in parallel connected and a first fuse bridged two ends thereto provide one trimming step; a second resistor set having 2 resistors in series... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7570103 | Semiconductor device including capacitive circuit and short-circuit preventing circuit connected in series In a semiconductor circuit device including a first terminal adapted to receive a first voltage and a second terminal adapted to receive a second voltage lower than the first voltage, a capacitive circuit and a short-circuit preventing circuit are provided in series... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7567115 | Fuse-fetching circuit and method for using the same A fuse-fetching circuit comprises a plurality of fuses, a plurality of first switches and a shift register. Each of the first switches includes a first data end, a second data end and a control end. The first data end is connected to the fuse, and the control end is... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7567114 | Semiconductor device having two fuses in parallel A semiconductor device employs two electric fuses (31, 32) connected in parallel to each other. First terminals of the electric fuses (31, 32) are connected to a junction of first and second P-channel transistors (21, 22), which are connected in... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7564295 | Automatic bias circuit for sense amplifier The present invention discloses a bias circuit for a sense amplifier having a device under sensing, the device under sensing having an un-programmed state and a programmed state, the bias circuit comprises at least one first branch having at least one first device f... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7538597 | Fuse cell and method for programming the same The fuse cell architecture 371 for the presently claimed invention employs a multiple fuse structure 301, 302 architecture in lieu of a single fuse structure. As such, the terminals of these fuse structures that couple to other on-chip devices are alwa... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7538598 | Circuit and method for supplying programming potential at voltages larger than BVDss of programming transistors A circuit for programming an antifuse coupled between a first node and a second node includes at least one transistor for supplying a programming potential VPP to the first node. A first transistor has a source coupled to a third node switchably coupleabl... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7532058 | Fuse option circuit A fuse option circuit including a fuse, a control switch, a latch, and a logical operational controller is provided. The latch stores a selected level. The logical operational controller outputs a selected result signal and feedbacks a control signal to the control ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532057 | Electrically programmable fuse sense circuit A design structure for electrically programmable fuse sense circuit having an electrically programmable fuse and a reference resistance. A first current source is coupled, through a first switch, to the electrically programmable fuse. A second current source is coup... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7528646 | Electrically programmable fuse sense circuit A electrically programmable fuse sense circuit having an electrically programmable fuse and a reference resistance. A first current source is coupled, through a first switch, to the electrically programmable fuse. A second current source is coupled, through a second... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7525368 | Fuse circuit A fuse circuit comprises at least one fuse circuit unit and a current blocking module. The fuse circuit unit comprises a voltage establishing module and a latch. The voltage establishing module is coupled to a first reference voltage source and includes a fuse that ... | 04/28/2009 |
