FeRAM device and circuit technologies fully compatible with advanced CMOS

Recent progress in FeRAM device and circuit technologies that are fully compatible with advanced CMOS logic is described. We have developed a ferroelectric capacitor of a CMVP (capacitor-on-Metal/Via-stacked-Plug) memory cell that is fabricated after the completion of multilevel metallization. A 0.35-/spl mu/m 2T/2C FeRAM macro based on CMVP has been fabricated for smart card applications. The chip features a wide operation voltage range, high write/read endurance, low consumption current, and a flexible memory size. The CMVP technologies also enable a 0.25-/spl mu/m ASIC SRAM macro to be nonvolatile (NV-SRAM: nonvolatile SRAM). The memory cell consists of a six-transistor SRAM cell and two stacked back-up ferroelectric capacitors. A Vdd/2 plate line architecture makes read/write fatigue virtually negligible.