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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/JKIICE.2009.13.9.1858

Design of Low-Area 1-kb PMOS Antifuse-Type OTP IP  

Lee, Cheon-Hyo (창원대학교)
Jang, Ji-Hye (창원대학교)
Kang, Min-Cheol (창원대학교)
Lee, Byung-June (창원대학교)
Ha, Pan-Bong (창원대학교)
Kim, Young-Hee (창원대학교)
Abstract
In this paper, we design a non-volatile memory IP, 1-kb one-time programmable (OTP) memory, used for power management ICs. Since a conventional OTP cell uses an isolated NMOS transistor as an antifuse, there is an advantage of it big cell size with the BCD process. We use, therefore, a PMOS transistor as an antifuse in lieu of the isolated NMOS transistor and minimize the cell size by optimizing the size of a OTP cell transistor. And we add an ESD protection circuit to the OTP core circuit to prevent an arbitrary cell from being programmed by a high voltage between the terminals of the PMOS antifuse when the ESD test is done. Furthermore, we propose a method of turning on a PMOS pull-up transistor of high impedance to eliminate a gate coupling noise in reading a non-programmed cell. The layout size of the designed 1-kb PMOS-type antifuse OTP IP with Dongbu's $0.18{\mu}m$ BCD is $129.93{\times}452.26{\mu}m^2$.
Keywords
OTP; PMOS-type antifuse; ESD protection; sense amplifier;
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