Patent · US Expired

Method, system and method of using a component for setting the electrical characteristics of microelectronic circuit configurations

US6459296B2 · kind B2 · utility

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5References

13Claims

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Assignee

Infineon Technologies AG · DE

Inventors

Stephan Bradl · Regensburg, DE
Oliver Gehring · Dresden, DE
Olaf Heitzsch · Coswig, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 26, 2001
Grant date	Oct 1, 2002
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 26, 2021

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG11C27/005
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The electrical characteristic of a microelectronic circuit configuration that has at least one analog electronic unit is set. In a configuration step, by feeding and/or extracting electrical charge, the analog electronic unit is put into a state which permanently determines the analog electrical characteristics of the unit. In particular, the floating gate of an EEPROM cell is charged up to a freely selectable charge value lying within a continuous range.

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