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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2001
Guoqiao Tao, Nijmegen, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to a semiconductor device comprising an arrangement of an electrically programmable non-volatile memory element ( ), formed on a semiconductor surface ( ), for storing a data bit; the non-volatile memory element ( ) including a fuse wire ( ) and a heating wire ( ); the fuse wire ( ) being arranged as a planar line, and further being arranged as a memory element to be programmable by blowing the fuse wire ( ) through joule heating induced by a current flow; the heating wire ( ) being arranged as a heater spatially surrounding the fuse wire ( ), and the heating wire ( ) being arranged to generate additional heat by current flow induced joule heating and to provide said additional heat to the fuse wire ( ) during programming of the fuse wire ( ).