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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 1988
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kuppuswamy Raghunathan, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365189 ; 365185 ; 365230 ;
Abstract
An erase circuit for an EEPROM is provided which only uses enhancement type transistors. This eliminates having to use additional processing steps to provide depletion type transistors in a CMOS process. Enhancement type transistors are used to provide the erase voltage to the control gate of an electrically erasable memory cell. An additional enhancement type transistor is used to maintain the control gate in a non-floating condition during non-erase periods.