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Redundant memory device having a memory cell and electrically breakable circuit having the same dielectric film

US5303199A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 19, 1991
Grant dateApr 12, 1994
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Expiry dateFeb 19, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01L2924/0002
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An easily circuit-programmable semiconductor device which comprises a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) unit, a redundancy circuit and a connection between them, the DRAM unit having as a capacitor a dielectric film made of a silicon oxide/silicon nitride/silicon oxide composite layer and the connection having, as a member for programming the redundancy circuit, an electrically breakable dielectric film made of a silicon oxide/silicon nitride/silicon oxide composite layer.

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