IoT and OTP are Like Peanut Butter and Jelly!

By SemiWiki

August 31, 2015

Have you ever had a peanut butter and bacon sandwich? Everything goes better with bacon! Which brings me to one of my favorite sayings: “(insert two complimentary things) go together like peanut butter and jelly”. How about this: “low power and IoT”, “IoT and OTP”, and “Low Power OTP and Sidense go together like peanut butter and jelly!”

Programmable memory started with PROMs in the 1950s and moved to antifuse one time programmable memory in the late 1960s. Texas Instruments brought OTP to MOS technology in the 1970s, Kilopass brought OTP to CMOS in 2001, and in 2005 Sidense introduced a low power split channel antifuse device. A Split Channel bit cell combines the thick and thin gate oxide devices into one transistor (1T) with a common polysilicon gate. That little history lesson was more for me than you by the way since I have not worked with non-volatile memory (NVM) since the Virage Logic days.

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