Investigation of TID degradation of high voltage circuits in flash memory

The total ionizing dose (TID) radiation response of a flash memory circuit including high voltage (HV) periphery was studied. We show that functional failure of the charge pumps (CP) is mostly caused by an increased load current, due to radiation induced leakage current in the HV pass transistors. This leads to a failure to program/erase the array in turn.

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