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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2022
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/26 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/2642 (2013.01); G01R 31/2628 (2013.01);
Abstract
The test circuit monitoring positive bias temperature instability (PBTI) includes a PBTI monitoring unit driven according to a power voltage, the PBTI monitoring unit outputting an output voltage having a potential that is equal to or lower than a potential of the power voltage according to a PBTI degradation rate of an NMOS transistor; and a degradation determiner for determining the PBTI degradation rate by comparing the potential of the output voltage to the potential of the power voltage.