Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp. Ltd.

Jerry Chen

Yue-Der Chih

Cheng-Hsiung Kuo

Gu-Huan Li

Hsu-Shun Chen

ChunHung Chen

To provide improved planarization, techniques in accordance with this disclosure include a CMP station that includes a support plate having a plurality of apertures. An aperture of the plurality of apertures has a first opening and a second opening connected by a slot. Other systems and methods are also disclosed.

Chemical mechanical polishing head

A device includes an error amplifier, a standby current source, a charging current source, a voltage divider, and a first switch. The error amplifier has a negative input terminal and a positive input terminal. The standby current source has a control terminal electrically connected to an output terminal of the error amplifier. The voltage divider has an input terminal electrically connected to an output terminal of the standby current source, and an output terminal electrically connected to the positive input terminal of the error amplifier. The charging current source has a control terminal electrically connected to the output terminal of the error amplifier. The first switch has a first terminal electrically connected to an input terminal of the charging current source, and a second terminal electrically connected to a first power supply node.

Low dropout regulator and related method

An electronic device includes a first circuit, a second circuit, and a power on control (POC) circuit. The POC circuit includes an enable terminal electrically connected to a first output of the first circuit, a first input terminal electrically connected to a first voltage supply, a second input terminal electrically connected to a second voltage supply, and an output terminal. The second circuit includes a biasing-sensitive circuit, and a logic circuit including a first input terminal electrically connected to a second output of the first circuit, a second input terminal electrically connected to the output of the POC circuit, and an output terminal electrically connected to an enable terminal of the biasing-sensitive circuit.

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Taipei, Taiwan

Jerry Chen