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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2008
Sorin S. Georgescu, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter Cosmin, San Jose, CA (US);
George Smarandoiu, San Jose, CA (US);
Sorin S. Georgescu, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter Cosmin, San Jose, CA (US);
George Smarandoiu, San Jose, CA (US);
Semiconductor Components Industries, L.L.C., Phoenix, AZ (US);
Abstract
A non-volatile memory including one or more EEPROM cell pairs. Each EEPROM cell pair includes three transistors and stores two data bits, effectively providing a 1.5 transistor EEPROM cell. An EEPROM cell pair includes a first non-volatile memory transistor, a second non-volatile memory transistor and a source access transistor. The source access transistor includes: a first source region continuous with a source region of the first non-volatile memory transistor; a second source region continuous with a source region of the second non-volatile memory transistor, and a third source region continuous with source regions of other non-volatile memory transistors located in the same row as the EEPROM cell pair.