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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2017
Applicant:
Winbond Electronics Corporation, Taichung, TW;
Inventors:
Seow Fong Lim, Fremont, CA (US);
Chi-Shun Lin, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Windbond Electronics Corporation, Taichung, TW;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 23/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 23/542 (2013.01);
Abstract
A monotonic counter includes a plurality of stages respectively corresponding to a plurality of counting bits of the monotonic counter. At least one of the plurality of stages is a non-volatile flip-flop (NVFF) counter that includes a plurality of NVFFs, each NVFF including a pair of non-volatile memory cells.