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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2007
Sushant S. Suryagandh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ciby Thomas Thuruthiyil, Fremont, CA (US);
Sushant S. Suryagandh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ciby Thomas Thuruthiyil, Fremont, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
In one disclosed embodiment, the present method for determining a gate-to-body current for a floating body FET comprises measuring at least three unique gate-to-body currents corresponding to at least three unique body-tied FET structures, determining at least three unique relationships between the at least three unique gate-to-body currents and at least three gate-to-body current density components for the at least three unique body-tied FET structures, and utilizing those at least three unique relationships to determine the at least three gate-to-body current density components; wherein one of the gate-to-body current density components is used to determine the gate-to-body current for the floating body FET. In one embodiment, a test structure implements a method for determining a gate-to-body current in a floating body FET. The determined gate-to-body current may be used to predict hysteresis in the floating body FET.