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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2007
Applicants:
Zhanping Chen, Portland, OR (US);
Kevin Zhang, Portland, OR (US);
Inventors:
Zhanping Chen, Portland, OR (US);
Kevin Zhang, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A programmable ROM (PROM) architecture includes cascode NMOS transistors with a fuse bit cell that is arrayed, with sleep transistors located in each column of the array that in a standby mode shut down the entire fuse array. A fuse redundancy scheme may be used to repair a defective fuse row.