Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp. Ltd.

Macronix International Co., Ltd.

Jin-Lien Lin

Yen-Huei Chen

Jiun Yi Wu

Kuo-Ching Hsu

Kai-Ming Ching

Shih-Cheng Chang

Han-Sung Chen

Chun Hsiung Hung

Yu-Shen Lin

Tzeng-Huei Shiau

Ray L Wan

Yuan-Chang Liu

Chung-Cheng Tsai

An integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor chip including a front surface and a back surface; a via extending from the back surface of the semiconductor chip into the semiconductor chip, wherein the via is light transparent; and a photon detector in the semiconductor chip and exposed to the via.

Optical clock signal distribution using through-silicon vias

A system for programming arrays of floating gate memory cells reduces programming current requirements, and reduces wordline and bitline stress during programming. A word-to-be-programmed into a floating gate memory array is divided into a plurality of smaller subwords. Only one subword is programmed at a time, thereby reducing programming current requirements. Additionally, subwords which are successfully programmed are not reprogrammed even if bits in other subwords do not program properly. This creates less wordline stress than previous systems which program an entire word at once, thereby requiring subwords which program successfully to be reprogrammed along with subwords which fail to program. Finally, within each subword only those bits which failed to program are reprogrammed, thereby reducing bitline stress during reprogramming for those bits which were successfully programmed.

Low current floating gate programming with bit-by-bit verification

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Taoyuan, Taiwan

Jin-Lien Lin