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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2006
Filed:
May. 03, 2005
Manjeri Krishnan, Richardson, TX (US);
Bryan Sheffield, Rowlett, TX (US);
Joel J. Graber, Richardson, TX (US);
Duy-loan Le, Missouri City, TX (US);
Sanjive Agarwala, Richardson, TX (US);
Manjeri Krishnan, Richardson, TX (US);
Bryan Sheffield, Rowlett, TX (US);
Joel J. Graber, Richardson, TX (US);
Duy-Loan Le, Missouri City, TX (US);
Sanjive Agarwala, Richardson, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
Electrical fuses (eFuses) are applied to the task of memory performance adjustment to improve upon earlier fuse techniques by not requiring an additional processing step and expensive equipment. Standard electrical fuse (eFuse) hardware chains provide a soft test feature wherein the effect of memory slow-down can be tested prior to actually programming the fuses. Electrical fuses thus provide a very efficient non-volatile method to match the logic-memory interface through memory trimming, drastically cutting costs and cycle times involved.