Integrated circuit including logic portion and memory portion
View Patent ↗An integrated circuit includes a logic portion including M conductive layers, a memory portion including N conductive layers, and at least one common top conductive layer over the logic portion and the memory portion. M is greater than N.
1. An integrated circuit comprising:
a logic portion comprising M conductive layers;
a memory portion comprising N conductive layers; and
at least one common top conductive layer over the logic portion and the memory portion,
wherein M is greater than N.
2. The integrated circuit of claim 1 , wherein the memory portion comprises a resistive memory array.
3. The integrated circuit of claim 2 , wherein the resistive memory array comprises a phase change memory array.
4. The integrated circuit of claim 2 , wherein the resistive memory array comprises a conductive bridging random access memory array.
5. The integrated circuit of claim 3 , wherein the phase change memory array includes a plate of phase change material and heater contacts contacting the plate of phase change material.
6. The integrated circuit of claim 3 , wherein the phase change memory array includes a plate of phase change material and phase change elements contacting the plate of phase change material.
7. The integrated circuit of claim 4 , wherein the conductive bridging random access memory array includes a conductive bridging random access memory active layer and contacts contacting the active layer.
8. An integrated circuit comprising:
a logic portion comprising K conductive layers; and
a memory portion comprising a storage layer and J conductive layers below the storage layer,
wherein the storage layer is coplanar with a J+1 conductive layer of the logic portion.
9. The integrated circuit of claim 8 , wherein the memory portion comprises a resistive memory array.
10. The integrated circuit of claim 9 , wherein the resistive memory array comprises a phase change memory array.
11. The integrated circuit of claim 9 , wherein the resistive memory array comprises a conductive bridging random access memory array.
12. The integrated circuit of claim 10 , wherein the phase change memory array includes a plate of phase change material and heater contacts contacting the plate of phase change material.
13. The integrated circuit of claim 10 , wherein the phase change memory array includes a plate of phase change material and phase change elements contacting the plate of phase change material.
14. The integrated circuit of claim 11 , wherein the conductive bridging random access memory array includes a conductive bridging random access memory active layer and contacts contacting the active layer.
15. A semiconductor memory device comprising:
a logic portion comprising K conductive layers, first active devices, and first contacts coupling the first active devices to the conductive layers; and
a resistive memory array portion comprising a resistive memory material layer, J conductive layers below the resistive memory material layer, second active devices, and second contacts coupling the second active devices to the resistive memory material layer, the resistive memory material layer coplanar with a J+1 conductive layer of the logic portion.
16. The memory device of claim 15 , wherein the resistive memory material layer comprises a phase change material layer.
17. The memory device of claim 15 , wherein a storage location is provided at an interface of each second contact and the resistive memory material layer.
18. The memory device of claim 17 , wherein each second contact comprises a ring contact.
19. The memory device of claim 17 , wherein each second contact comprises a cylindrical contact.
20. The memory device of claim 17 , wherein each second contact comprises a heater contact.