Patents by Inventor Marco Giuseppe Mastrapasqua

Marco Giuseppe Mastrapasqua 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).

  • Operation of semiconductor devices subject to hot carrier injection
    Patent number: 6963215
    Abstract: Given a set of hot carrier stress data measured at a fixed level of an operating parameter (e.g., VDS), my invention predicts what the overall hot carrier stress will be when the same operating parameter is dynamically varied in time pursuant to a predetermined function. One embodiment of my invention is a method of operating a semiconductor device (e.g., a LDMOS FET) that is subject to hot carrier injection (HCI) and is characterized by a device parameter (e.g., RON; IDq) and a dynamically varied operating parameter (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Marco Giuseppe Mastrapasqua