The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices, and in particular to cross-point memory arrays and methods for fabricating the same. Line stacks are formed, including a storage material line disposed over lower a conductive line. Upper conductive lines are formed over and crossing the line stacks, exposing portions of the line stacks between adjacent upper conductive lines. After forming the upper conductive lines, storage elements are formed at intersections between the lower conductive lines and the upper conductive lines by removing storage materials from exposed portions of the line stacks, such that each storage element is laterally surrounded by spaces. A continuous sealing material laterally surrounds each of the storage elements.

One example includes a resistive random access memory (ReRAM) device. The device includes a set of electrodes to receive a voltage. The device also includes a memristor element to at least one of store and readout a memory state in response to a current that flows through the ReRAM device in response to the voltage. The device further includes a selector element having a dynamic current-density area with respect to the voltage.

A memory cell array structure includes memory cells arranged in m rows and n columns on a substrate, and n columns of first and second well regions with different conductivity types alternatively arranged along the column direction. Each of the memory cells includes first and second diodes. The first diode formed of a first doped region in the same column is disposed in the first well region. The second diode formed of a second doped region in the same column is disposed in the second well region. A third doped region having the conductivity type of the first well region is disposed in the first well region and is connected to the reset line of the same column. A fourth doped region having the conductivity type of the second well region is disposed in the second well region and is connected to the bit line of the same column.

The disclosure relates to a memory cell formed in a wafer comprising a semiconductor substrate covered with a first insulating layer, the insulating layer being covered with an active layer made of a semiconductor, the memory cell comprising a selection transistor having a control gate and a first conduction terminal connected to a variable-resistance element, the gate being formed on the active layer and having a lateral flank covered with a second insulating layer, the variable-resistance element being formed by a layer of variable-resistance material, deposited on a lateral flank of the active layer in a first trench formed through the active layer along the lateral flank of the gate, a trench conductor being formed in the first trench against a lateral flank of the layer of variable-resistance material.

A multi-chip package includes a field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) integrated-circuit (IC) chip configured to perform a logic function based on a truth table, wherein the field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) integrated-circuit (IC) chip comprises multiple non-volatile memory cells therein configured to store multiple resulting values of the truth table, and a programmable logic block therein configured to select, in accordance with one of the combinations of its inputs, one from the resulting values into its output; and a memory chip coupling to the field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) integrated-circuit (IC) chip, wherein a data bit width between the field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) integrated-circuit (IC) chip and the memory chip is greater than or equal to 64.

A memory cell includes an input coupled to a read line, an output coupled to a circuit ground, a bi-polar memristor, and at least one address switch coupled to an address line to select the memory cell. A memory includes the bi-polar memristor and a one-way current conducting device, wherein the one-way current conducting device is positioned between the memristor cell output and the circuit ground, or between the read line and the memristor cell input.

A memory array and structure are provided. The array includes driving elements arranged in array; memory cells arranged in array and respectively corresponding to the driving elements, where one end of each memory cell is coupled to a first end of the corresponding driving element; word lines and bit lines arranged to intersect with each other, where each word lines is coupled to control ends of the driving elements in the same word line, and each bit line is respectively coupled to the other ends of the memory cells. For each word line, the first end of one driving element is connected to the first end of at least one other driving element in the same word line by a metal line, so as to form share driving elements.

A method of manufacturing an electronic device comprises: forming a plurality of line patterns on a substrate extending in a first direction and including a first conductive line and a memory pattern; forming a first liner layer on sidewalls of each of the plurality of line patterns, the first liner layer including a plurality of layers having different energy band gaps; forming an insulating interlayer on the substrate; forming a plurality of second conductive lines on the line patterns and the insulating interlayer; etching the first liner layer, the insulating interlayer and the memory pattern using the second conductive lines as an etch barrier to expose the first conductive line to form a plurality of memory cells; and forming a second liner layer on both sidewalls of each of the memory cells, the etched first liner layer and both sidewalls of the etched insulating interlayer.

The present invention disclosures a memory array structure, comprising an array composed of multiple memory devices arranged in rows and columns, each of the rows is set with a row leading-out wire, and each of the columns is set with a column leading-out wire, memory devices are correspondingly positioned at intersection points of each row leading-out wire and each column leading-out wire; wherein, the first terminal of each of the memory devices is individually connected to the row leading-out wire of the same row, and the second terminal of each of the memory devices is connected to a first terminal of a switch in the same column, the second terminal of the switch is connected to the column leading-out wire of the same column; wherein, each of the rows is set with one to multiple the switches, and the first terminal of each of the switches is connected to one to all of the second terminals of the memory devices in the same column. The advantage of the present invention is that the corresponding analog currents output of input signals of different specified rows according to multiply-accumulate operation requirements of each of the columns can be obtained simultaneously, thus multiply-accumulate operations of different input signals of different scales can be performed, which greatly improves operation speed and using efficiency of the array.

A phase-change memory cell includes a heater, a memory region made of a phase-change material located above said heater, and an electrically conductive element positioned adjacent to the memory region and the heater at a first side of the heater. The electrically conductive element extends parallel to a first axis and has, parallel to the first axis, a first dimension at the first side that is greater than a second dimension at a second side opposite to the first side.