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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2006
Andrew Chen, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Bibhudatta Sahoo, San Diego, CA (US);
Ali Anvar, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Andrew Chen, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Bibhudatta Sahoo, San Diego, CA (US);
Ali Anvar, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
According to one exemplary embodiment, a memory cell in a semiconductor chip includes a non-volatile memory transistor, a control gate, and a floating gate. The control gate is capacitively coupled to the floating gate of the non-volatile memory transistor by a metal capacitor. The metal capacitor can be formed in one or more metal levels and in one embodiment is in a shape of a comb with multiple fingers. In one embodiment, the non-volatile memory transistor is an NMOS non-volatile memory transistor.