Patent ID: 8519508

Claim:
A semiconductor device comprising: a substrate; an anti-fuse element formed in a first region of said substrate, said anti-fuse element comprising: a gate dielectric film formed over the substrate, a gate electrode over the gate dielectric film, sidewalls formed on both sides of the gate electrode, the sidewalls including a film stack of, in order, a silicon oxide film, a silicon nitride film, and a silicon oxide film, a source region and a drain region of a first conductivity type formed on respective sides of the gate electrode, and a channel region formed entirely of the first conductivity type and extending with a constant depth from the source region to the drain region without any regions of a second conductivity type in the channel region of said anti-fuse element; and a first transistor formed in a second region of said substrate, said first transistor comprising: a gate dielectric film formed over the substrate, a gate electrode over the gate dielectric film, sidewalls formed on respective sides of the gate electrode, a source region and a drain region of the first conductivity type formed on respective sides of the gate electrode, a channel region of the second conductivity type formed between the source region and the drain region, and pocket regions of the second conductivity type formed respectively between the channel region of the second conductivity type and the source region and the drain region of the first transistor.