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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1995
Craig S Lage, Austin, TX (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
An SRAM cell includes a pair of cross-coupled inverters where each inverter includes vertical n-channel and p-channel transistors having a gate electrode that is shared between the transistors that make up each inverter. The gate electrodes for the inverters laterally surround the channel regions of the p-channel load transistors to achieve a relatively high beta ratio without occupying a large amount of substrate surface area. Also, the gate electrodes increase the amount of capacitance of the storage nodes and decreases the soft error rate. The active regions of the latch transistors are electrically isolated from the substrate by a buried oxide layer, thereby decreasing the chances of latch-up.