Patent 7369452 was granted and assigned to Freescale Semiconductor on May, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A device having an OTP memory is disclosed. A program state of the OTP device is stored at a fuse that is connected in series between a first node and a latch. During a program mode, the first node is electrically connected to a program voltage. During a read mode, the first node is electrically connected to ground, whereby a first divided voltage is generated at a first node of the latch.