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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2019
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Dok Won Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);
William David French, San Jose, CA (US);
Keith Ryan Green, Prosper, TX (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/22 (2006.01); H01L 43/06 (2006.01); H01L 43/14 (2006.01); H01L 43/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/22 (2013.01); H01L 43/04 (2013.01); H01L 43/065 (2013.01); H01L 43/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed examples provide wafer-level integration of magnetoresistive sensors and Hall-effect sensors in a single integrated circuit, in which one or more vertical and/or horizontal Hall sensors are formed on or in a substrate along with transistors and other circuitry, and a magnetoresistive sensor circuit is formed in the IC metallization structure.