Patents Represented by Law Firm Wolf, Greenfield & Sacke, P.C.
  • Patent number: 5903494
    Abstract: A four state programmable memory cell includes a substrate of a first conductivity type having a channel region having a first side and a second side, a control gate located on a first insulating layer above the channel region, a drain region of a second conductivity type located on the substrate adjacent to the first side of the channel region, a source region of a second conductivity type located on the substrate adjacent to the second side of the channel region, a first insulated floating gate located on a second insulating layer above the drain region adjacent to the control gate, and a second insulated floating gate located on a third insulating layer above the source region adjacent to the control gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.A.
    Inventors: Constantin Papadas, Bernard Guillaumot