APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HARDENING LATCHES IN SOI CMOS DEVICES
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Abstract
A method of determining one or more transistors within a particular circuit to be respectively replaced with a hardened transistor includes: identifying, as not requiring hardening, one or more transistors; identifying, as candidates for hardening, each transistor in the circuit not previously identified as not requiring hardening; and employing the hardened transistor in place of a transistor identified as a candidate for hardening. The circuit is a latch and the transistor is an SOI CMOS FET. The transistor is also an SOI transistor. The series transistor includes first and second series-connected transistors having a shared source/drain region whereby a drain of the first series-connected transistor is merged with a source of the second series-connected transistor.
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10. A circuit, comprising:
- at least one hardened, series transistor; and
at least one non-hardened transistor. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
- at least one hardened, series transistor; and
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