Inventor
HOUSTON THEODORE W
US238 patents
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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC
49 patentsUS6954918B2Oct 11, 2005
Integrated circuit cells
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC223 citations99
US6737347B1May 18, 2004
Semiconductor device with fully self-aligned local interconnects, and method for fabricating the device
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC214 citations99
US6703673B2Mar 9, 2004
SOI DRAM having P-doped poly gate for a memory pass transistor
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC142 citations99
US6424016B1Jul 23, 2002
SOI DRAM having P-doped polysilicon gate for a memory pass transistor
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC216 citations99
US6177300B1Jan 23, 2001
Memory with storage cells having SOI drive and access transistors with tied floating body connections
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC211 citations99
US5943258AAug 24, 1999
Memory with storage cells having SOI drive and access transistors with tied floating body connections
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC173 citations99
US5615162AMar 25, 1997
Selective power to memory
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC191 citations99
US7307907B2Dec 11, 2007
SRAM device and a method of operating the same to reduce leakage current during a sleep mode
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC61 citations98
US7164596B1Jan 16, 2007
SRAM cell with column select line
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC72 citations98
US6925025B2Aug 2, 2005
SRAM device and a method of powering-down the same
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC94 citations98
US6061267AMay 9, 2000
Memory circuits, systems, and methods with cells using back bias to control the threshold voltage of one or more corresponding cell transistors
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC96 citations98
US5185280AFeb 9, 1993
Method of fabricating a soi transistor with pocket implant and body-to-source (bts) contact
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC117 citations98
US7327591B2Feb 5, 2008
Staggered memory cell array
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC109 citations97
US5461577AOct 24, 1995
Comprehensive logic circuit layout system
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC134 citations97
US7027346B2Apr 11, 2006
Bit line control for low power in standby
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC46 citations96
US6787469B2Sep 7, 2004
Double pattern and etch of poly with hard mask
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC99 citations96
US6611451B1Aug 26, 2003
Memory array and wordline driver supply voltage differential in standby
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC62 citations96
US6573549B1Jun 3, 2003
Dynamic threshold voltage 6T SRAM cell
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC64 citations96
US6461933B2Oct 8, 2002
SPIMOX/SIMOX combination with ITOX option
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC71 citations96
US6307281B1Oct 23, 2001
System and method for reducing power dissipation in a circuit
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC81 citations96
US6118161ASep 12, 2000
Self-aligned trenched-channel lateral-current-flow transistor
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC43 citations96
US6096612AAug 1, 2000
Increased effective transistor width using double sidewall spacers
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC66 citations96
US6045625AApr 4, 2000
Buried oxide with a thermal expansion matching layer for SOI
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC85 citations96
US6037808AMar 14, 2000
Differential SOI amplifiers having tied floating body connections
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC50 citations96
US5917365AJun 29, 1999
Optimizing the operating characteristics of a CMOS integrated circuit
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC62 citations96
US5905290AMay 18, 1999
Single event upset hardened memory cell
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC61 citations96
US5396110AMar 7, 1995
Pulse generator circuit and method
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC94 citations96
US5325054AJun 28, 1994
Method and system for screening reliability of semiconductor circuits
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC46 citations96
US5215931AJun 1, 1993
Method of making extended body contact for semiconductor over insulator transistor
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC68 citations96
US5214610AMay 25, 1993
Memory with selective address transition detection for cache operation
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC84 citations96
US5208489AMay 4, 1993
Multiple compound domino logic circuit
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC57 citations96
US5018102AMay 21, 1991
Memory having selected state on power-up
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC75 citations96
US7236396B2Jun 26, 2007
Area efficient implementation of small blocks in an SRAM array
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC58 citations95
US5936278AAug 10, 1999
Semiconductor on silicon (SOI) transistor with a halo implant
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC75 citations94
US5909628AJun 1, 1999
Reducing non-uniformity in a refill layer thickness for a semiconductor device
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC54 citations94
US7745867B2Jun 29, 2010
Integrated DRAM process/structure using contact pillars
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC12 citations93
US7710763B2May 4, 2010
SRAM cell using separate read and write circuitry
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC24 citations93
US7564725B2Jul 21, 2009
SRAM bias for read and write
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC26 citations93
US7483332B2Jan 27, 2009
SRAM cell using separate read and write circuitry
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC25 citations93
US7289354B2Oct 30, 2007
Memory array with a delayed wordline boost
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC26 citations93
US7039818B2May 2, 2006
Low leakage SRAM scheme
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC28 citations93
US6996787B2Feb 7, 2006
Integrated circuit cells
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC14 citations93
US6791864B2Sep 14, 2004
Column voltage control for write
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC28 citations93
US6768144B2Jul 27, 2004
Method and apparatus for reducing leakage current in an SRAM array
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC46 citations93
US6734521B2May 11, 2004
Integrated circuit cells
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC19 citations93
US6731533B2May 4, 2004
Loadless 4T SRAM cell with PMOS drivers
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC25 citations93
US6710391B2Mar 23, 2004
Integrated DRAM process/structure using contact pillars
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC23 citations93
US6687145B2Feb 3, 2004
Static random access memory cell and method
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC24 citations93
US6552923B2Apr 22, 2003
SRAM with write-back on read
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC35 citations93
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC
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