Class 365/185.08 - With volatile signal storage device

Subclass of Class 365 - Static information storage and retrieval
Definition: Subject matter under 185.05 wherein the floating gate device
No. of patents: 653
Last issue date: 05/08/2012

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8174886	Semiconductor memory having electrically floating body transistor A semiconductor memory cell includes a floating body region configured to be charged to a level indicative of a state of the memory cell; a first region in electrical contact with said floating body region; a second region in electrical contact with said floating bo...	05/08/2012
8149619	Memory structure having volatile and non-volatile memory portions A memory array is provided that includes a transistor having two active gates sharing a source, a drain, and a channel of the transistor. One of the active gates may be coupled to a volatile memory portion of a memory cell, such as a DRAM cell, and the other active ...	04/03/2012
8144514	One-transistor floating-body DRAM cell device with non-volatile function The 1T floating-body DRAM cell device includes a floating body for storing information of the DRAM cell device, a source and a drain formed on respective sides of the floating body, a gate insulating layer formed on a top of the floating body, a gate electrode forme...	03/27/2012
8134875	Data storage system with removable memory module having parallel channels of DRAM memory and flash memory A data storage system includes a first circuit board, a plurality of sockets coupled to the first circuit board, an connector coupled to each of the sockets for coupling each of the sockets to external circuitry, and a plurality of memory modules, each memory module...	03/13/2012
8130548	Semiconductor memory having electrically floating body transistor A semiconductor memory cell includes a floating body region configured to be charged to a level indicative of a state of the memory cell; a first region in electrical contact with said floating body region; a second region in electrical contact with said floating bo...	03/06/2012
8102710	System and method for setting access and modification for synchronous serial interface NAND The invention includes a system and method of modifying a setting of a NAND flash memory device using serial peripheral interface (SPI) communication from a master to the NAND flash memory device. One embodiment generally includes sending an enable signal to a first...	01/24/2012
8094499	Method using a one-time programmable memory cell A one-time programmable device includes a controller, a protection system, a static storage element and a latch, which can be referred to as a latch-based one-time programmable (OTP) element. In one example, the static storage element includes a thin gate-oxide that...	01/10/2012
8064257	Semiconductor memory device having faulty cells In response to a read command received by a system interface unit for accessing a plurality of blocks of data stored in said non-volatile semiconductor memory, a controller carries out selective read operations of blocks of data to two memories from the non-volatile...	11/22/2011
8064256	Non-volatile FIFO with third dimension memory A FIFO with data storage implemented with non-volatile third dimension memory cells is disclosed. The non-volatile third dimension memory cells can be fabricated BEOL on top of a substrate that includes FEOL fabricated active circuitry configured for data operations...	11/22/2011
8064255	Architecture of a nvDRAM array and its sense regime A process of operating a memory array includes performing all volatile and nonvolatile operations on an nvDRAM cell array via a single data interface and using only DRAM-level signals on the data interface. ...	11/22/2011
8059459	Semiconductor memory having both volatile and non-volatile functionality and method of operating Semiconductor memory having both volatile and non-volatile modes and methods of operation. A semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory cells each having a floating body for storing, reading and writing data as volatile memory. The device includes a...	11/15/2011
8059458	3T high density nvDRAM cell A memory circuit includes a single transistor storing both volatile and nonvolatile bit charges. ...	11/15/2011
8050092	NAND flash memory with integrated bit line capacitance Method and apparatus for outputting data from a memory array having a plurality of non-volatile memory cells arranged into rows and columns. In accordance with various embodiments, charge is stored in a volatile memory cell connected to the memory array, and the sto...	11/01/2011
8036032	5T high density NVDRAM cell A memory circuit includes a high voltage region providing storage of a nonvolatile bit, and a low voltage region providing at least partial storage of a volatile bit. The high and low voltage regions are isolated from one another and formed by a plurality of transis...	10/11/2011
8036033	Semiconductor memory having both volatile and non-volatile functionality and method of operating Semiconductor memory having both volatile and non-volatile modes and methods of operation. A semiconductor memory cell includes a substrate having a first conductivity type; a first region embedded in the substrate at a first location of the substrate and having a s...	10/11/2011
8014199	Memory system with switch element A memory system is provided forming a switch element having a first side and a second side, forming a cell transistor having a gate terminal, forming a memory cell, having the switch element and the cell transistor, with the gate terminal connected to the second sid...	09/06/2011
8014200	Semiconductor memory having volatile and multi-bit, non-volatile functionality and methods of operating A semiconductor memory cell, semiconductor memory devices comprising a plurality of the semiconductor memory cells, and methods of using the semiconductor memory cell and devices are described. A semiconductor memory cell includes a substrate having a first conducti...	09/06/2011
8004910	Data transfer system The invention is directed to decreasing a circuit size of a system in which a plurality of devices or circuit blocks share and use one memory. A system is configured so that a memory block serves as a master and each of circuit blocks serves as a slave, and thus the...	08/23/2011
8000140	Random access memory with CMOS-compatible nonvolatile storage element Embodiments provide systems, methods, and apparatuses with a plurality of row lines and column lines arranged in a matrix, and at least one memory cell having an access transistor and a CMOS-compatible non-volatile storage element coupled to the access transistor in...	08/16/2011
7983081	Non-volatile memory apparatus and method with deep N-well An apparatus and method of an electrically programmable and erasable non-volatile memory cell with a deep N-well to isolate the memory cell from the substrate is disclosed. In one embodiment, a non-volatile memory apparatus includes at least one non-volatile memory ...	07/19/2011
7969780	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory using an adjustable threshold voltage transistor in a flip-flop An object of this invention is to provide a rewritable nonvolatile memory cell that can have a wide reading margin, and can control both a word line and a bit line by changing the level of Vcc. As a solution, a flip-flop is formed by cross (loop) connect of inverter...	06/28/2011
7944745	Flash memory array of floating gate-based non-volatile memory cells A flash memory array comprises a plurality of memory cells organized in a matrix of rows and columns. Each of the memory cells includes a floating gate memory transistor having a source region and a drain region, and a coupling capacitor electrically connected to th...	05/17/2011
7911840	Logged-based flash memory system and logged-based method for recovering a flash memory system A flash memory system includes a path selector to determine to write to a non-volatile memory, a volatile memory or both the non-volatile memory and the volatile memory when the flash memory system is to write data. A record is stored in the non-volatile memory whic...	03/22/2011
7889577	Semiconductor device and control method of the same A semiconductor device includes: a first sector (12) having data that are all to be erased and having flash memory cells; a second sector (14) having data that are all to be retained and having flash memory cells; a sector select circuit (16) se...	02/15/2011
7885110	Random access memory with CMOS-compatible nonvolatile storage element and parallel storage capacitor Systems, methods, and memory device with row lines and column lines arranged in a matrix configuration with a memory cell coupled to one of the column lines and one of the row lines. The memory cell includes a storage capacitor with a first plate coupled to a storag...	02/08/2011
7869275	Memory structure capable of bit-wise write or overwrite An integrated circuit includes a plurality of tiles. One tile is a master tile. Other tiles contain writable registers of memory structures. Information for configuring circuitry of the tile is stored in the register in the tile. An individual one of the registers c...	01/11/2011
7859899	Non-volatile memory and method of operating the same Non-volatile (NV) semiconductor memories and methods of operating the same to reduce or eliminate a need for an external capacitance are provided. In one embodiment, the memory includes a memory cell comprising a random access memory (RAM) portion and a NV memory po...	12/28/2010
7839683	Semiconductor device The chip area of a semiconductor device including a nonvolatile memory is reduced. The semiconductor device includes a first memory cell and a second memory cell which are formed on the principal surface of a substrate, and arranged adjacent to each other. In a prin...	11/23/2010
7813176	Method and system for updating a stored data value in a non-volatile memory The invention provides a method of updating a stored data value in a non-volatile memory. The method includes reading the stored data value from the non-volatile memory; reading a stored differential value from a volatile memory; receiving an updated data value; cal...	10/12/2010
7791941	Non-volatile SRAM cell Methods, devices and systems for non-volatile static random access memory (SRAM) are provided. One method embodiment for operating an SRAM includes transferring data from a pair of static storage nodes of the SRAM to a pair of non-volatile storage nodes when the SRA...	09/07/2010
7773420	Memory card system including NAND flash memory and SRAM/NOR flash memory, and data storage method thereof An integrated circuit memory system includes a random access memory device, a flash memory device and a memory controller, which may be embodied on a single integrated circuit substrate. The memory controller is configured to respond to at least one command to write...	08/10/2010
7760548	Semiconductor memory having both volatile and non-volatile functionality and method of operating Semiconductor memory having both volatile and non-volatile modes and methods of operation. A semiconductor memory cell includes a substrate having a first conductivity type; a first region embedded in the substrate at a first location of the substrate and having a s...	07/20/2010
7755943	Unit cell block of EEPROM and semiconductor memory device having the same A semiconductor memory device is capable of reading data at a high speed, without using a reference cell transistor. The semiconductor memory device includes a sensing unit including first cross-coupled MOS transistors to sense and amplify a voltage difference betwe...	07/13/2010
7746695	Non-volatile semiconductor latch using hot-electron injection devices The invention concerns semiconductor latches capable of memorizing any programmed information even after power supply has been removed. Used is a μm BiCMOS EPROM process but it is applicable in any other process having hot electron injection devices like EPROM, Fla...	06/29/2010
7746696	CMOS twin cell non-volatile random access memory A memory has first and second storage cells, each with a floating node, that store complementary data values. Interlaced inverters quickly sense a voltage difference between the storage cells and provide a data value output when the memory is read. Each floating nod...	06/29/2010
7724571	Methods for adaptive programming of memory circuit including writing data in cells of a memory circuit Adaptive programming methods and supportive device architecture for memory devices are provided. Methods include partitioning words into variable length segments. More particularly, methods include receiving a word of data, parsing the word into a plurality of write...	05/25/2010
7724570	Adaptive programming of memory circuit including writing data in cells of a memory circuit Adaptive programming methods and supportive device architecture for memory devices are provided. Methods include partitioning words into variable length segments. More particularly, methods include receiving a word of data, parsing the word into a plurality of write...	05/25/2010
7710776	Method for on chip sensing of SONOS Vwindow in non-volatile static random access memory A system and method for determining a SONOS VT window using a current sensing scheme is disclosed. The present invention creates a first current path and a second current path through the volatile and non-volatile sections of an nvSRAM memory cell. The er...	05/04/2010
7688627	Flash memory array of floating gate-based non-volatile memory cells A flash memory array comprises a plurality of memory cells organized in a matrix of rows and columns. Each of the memory cells includes a floating gate memory transistor having a source region and a drain region, and a coupling capacitor electrically connected to th...	03/30/2010
7675775	Combined volatile nonvolatile array A memory circuit includes volatile memory cells coupled to bit lines, and nonvolatile memory cells coupled to the volatile memory cells via the bit lines but not via complement bit lines. ...	03/09/2010

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