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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/100 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of setting a state of a one-time programmable memory device having at least one memory cell with a thin gate-ox fuse element having an oxide of about 2.5 nm thick or less using a high voltage switch. The method comprises switching in a high programming voltage into the memory cell using such high voltage switch, setting the state of the thin gate-ox fuse element.