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Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2008

Filed:

Dec. 03, 2007
Applicants:

Byeongju Park, Plainview, NY (US);

Deok-kee Kim, Bedford Hills, NY (US);

John Matthew Safran, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);

Yongsang Cho, Kyunggido, KR;

Inventors:

Byeongju Park, Plainview, NY (US);

Deok-kee Kim, Bedford Hills, NY (US);

John Matthew Safran, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);

Yongsang Cho, Kyunggido, KR;

Assignees:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H 37/76 (2006.01); G06F 11/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An electrical fuse programming circuit and a method for programming an electrical fuse within the electrical fuse programming circuit use a programming circuit bus to which are electrically connected in parallel the electrical fuse and a bypass resistor. A current within the programming circuit bus is made to flow through the bypass resistor for a period of time sufficient to stabilize the current, and then sequentially and instantaneously switched to program the electrical fuse.


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