Patents by Inventor Victor Levchenko

Victor Levchenko has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6072720
    Abstract: Disclosed is a FPGA cell and array structure which use FN tunneling for program and erase. Each cell comprises a switch floating gate field effect transistor and a sense floating gate field effect transistor with the floating gates being common and the control gates being common. Programming of a cell is effected through a buried bitline in juxtaposition with the switch transistor and the sense transistor over which are the floating gate and the control gate. The sense transistor can be fabricated simultaneously with fabrication of the switch transistor whereby the two transistors are identical in dopant concentrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: GateField Corporation
    Inventors: Jack Zezhong Peng, Robert M. Salter, III, Volker Hecht, Kyung Joon Han, Robert U. Broze, Victor Levchenko
  • Patent number: 5894148
    Abstract: The present invention provides for an improved EPROM transistor cell which forms the programming portion of the programmable interconnect interconnect of an FPGA integrated circuit, and a method of manufacturing the EPROM cell. The EPROM cell has a floating gate disposed over a P region of the substrate. Aligned with one edge of the floating gate and at the surface of the substrate is a lightly doped P- region; on the opposite edge of the floating gate is a heavily doped N+ region. A control gate lies over the P-, P substrate and over the N+ region. N+ regions are formed at the opposite edges of the control gate. One N+ region is contiguous to the P- region and forms the source of the EPROM cell and the other N+ region is connected to the N+ region under the control gate and forms the drain of the EPROM cell. This structure allows for easy process control of the V.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1999
    Assignee: GateField Corporation
    Inventors: Jack Zezhong Peng, Robert U. Broze, Kyung Joon Han, Victor Levchenko
  • Patent number: 5838040
    Abstract: Disclosed is a FPGA cell and array structure which use FN tunneling for program and erase. Each cell comprises a switch floating gate field effect transistor and a sense floating gate field effect transistor with the floating gates being common and the control gates being common. Programming of a cell is effected by voltage biasing the common control gate line and the source/drains of the sense transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: GateField Corporation
    Inventors: Robert M. Salter, III, Kyung Joon Han, Jack Zezhong Peng, Victor Levchenko, Robert V. Broze