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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2022
Applicant:
Institut Mines Telecom, Palaiseau, FR;
Inventor:
Jean-Max Dutertre, Aix-en-Provence, FR;
Assignee:
INSTITUT MINES TELECOM, Palaiseau, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/22 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/22 (2013.01); G11C 29/1201 (2013.01); G11C 16/0408 (2013.01); G11C 2029/1204 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for detecting at least one fault caused by a photoelectric or radiative effect in a non-volatile semiconductor memory, the memory including a plurality of memory cells (CM) containing MOS transistors, potentially floating-gate MOS transistors, each memory cell being located at the intersection of an elementary bit line (BLE) and of a word line (WL),