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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Wolfgang Pockrandt, Reichertshausen, DE;
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/398 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/398 ;
Abstract
The integrated circuit has a circuit with information that is protected by a covering shielding level. A network with a large number of nodes is formed in the shielding level. Some of the nodes are linked to a comparator for a nominal-actual comparison. The comparator checks for a characteristic output current from each node. Errors on the characteristic output current lead to a change in the information which is stored in the circuit, so that the latter is protected against manipulation or analysis.