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Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 07, 2020
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Yanzhong Xu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Tracey DellaRova, Wake Forest, NC (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/356 (2006.01); H03K 3/037 (2006.01); H01L 27/092 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/037 (2013.01); H01L 27/0928 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure includes storage circuits, such latches. In one embodiment, a circuit includes a plurality of latches, each latch including a first N-type transistor formed in a first P-type material, a first P-type transistor formed in a first N-type material, a second N-type transistor formed in a second P-type material, and a second P-type transistor formed in a second N-type material. The first and second N-type transistors are formed in different P-wells and the first and second P-type transistors are formed in different N-wells. In other storage circuits, charge extraction transistors are coupled to data storage nodes and are biased in a nonconductive state. These techniques make the data storage circuits more resilient, for example, to an ionizing particle striking the circuit and generating charge carriers that would otherwise change the state of the storage node.


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