PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16182138
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["365", "145000"]

Abstract:
An integrated circuit including a ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) for storing firmware, and a method of updating that firmware. The FRAM is constructed to selectively operate as a 2T2C FRAM memory in a normal operating mode, and as a 1T1C FRAM memory in an update mode. Updating of the stored firmware is performed by placing the FRAM in its update (1T1C) mode and writing the updated code into alternate rows of the 1T1C half-cells at each of a plurality of memory locations, while the other 1T1C half-cells in the other alternate rows retain the original data. Following verification of the updated contents, the original data in the other half-cells are overwritten with the verified updated data, and the operating mode is changed back to the normal (2T2C) operating mode.

Claim (Index 2):
The integrated circuit of  claim 1 , wherein the FRAM further comprises:\n decode circuitry for decoding a row address value and energizing a word line for a row of the array of memory cells responsive to the row address value; wherein, for each row of memory cells, the pass transistor of each of the first half-cells in that row couples a plate of its ferroelectric capacitor to the first bit line responsive to a first word line signal, associated with a first row address value, shared among the first half-cells of the memory cells in the row; wherein, for each row of memory cells, the pass transistor of each of the second half-cells in that row couples a plate of its ferroelectric capacitor to the second bit line responsive to a second word line signal, associated with a second row address value, shared among the second half-cells of the memory cells in the row; wherein the first and second row address values for the same row differ from one another by a single row address bit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10145
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15139865', '12966963', '15019026', '16120107', '15678357']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.785851723055505
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5746377722342648
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7647303279733809
- Mean Citation Score: 289.107706
- Max Citation Score: 487.24094
- Similarity Product: 387.76775860567335

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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