1. Card holder for a mobile electronic device for receiving accessory cards, said card holder comprising:
a substantially cuboidal housing having an open front face for inserting accessory cards, said housing being constituted by a back face, a left and a right lateral face, and a top and a bottom face;
at least two guiding elements protruding from the interior side of said left and right lateral faces, respectively, and extending parallel to and between said top and said bottom face;
wherein:
said guiding elements define an upper slot of a first height h1 between said top face and said guiding elements and a lower slot of a second height h2 between said bottom face and said guiding elements, for receiving accessory cards of first height h1 and second height h2, respectively;
said upper and said lower slots together define a combined slot for receiving an accessory card of a third height h3;
said guiding elements are split into upper and lower guiding element sections associated to said upper and lower slots, respectively; and
said upper and lower guiding element sections are resiliently arranged on said left and right lateral faces, such that the guiding element section associated to a respective slot is pushed aside by an accessory card of first height h1 being inserted into that slot, such that said accessory card of first height can be received in that slot unobstructed by the associated guiding element section.
2. Card holder according to claim 1, wherein said guiding elements are resiliently arranged on said left and right lateral faces, in order to be pushed aside by an accessory card of a third height h3 being inserted into said combined slot, such that said accessory card of third height can be received in said card holder unobstructed by said guiding elements.
3. Card holder according to claim 1, further comprising at least one resilient element arranged on the inner side of said top or said bottom face for spring-biasing accessory cards received in said card holder towards said bottom or said top face, respectively.
4. Card holder according to claim 1, further comprising an electrical interface adapted for electrically contacting an accessory card of the third height.
5. Card holder according to claim 1, wherein:
said guiding elements are constituted by spring-biased guiding rails; and
said guiding rails are formed tapering towards the open front face of said housing.
6. Card holder according to claim 1, wherein said guiding elements are constituted by resilient curved strips.
7. Card holder according to claim 1, wherein said guiding elements are constituted by resilient tongues.
8. Electronic device, comprising a card holder according to claim 1.
9. Device according to claim 8, wherein said electronic device is a mobile phone.
10. A mobile phone comprising a card holder for receiving an accessory card, wherein the card holder comprises:
a substantially cuboidal housing having an open front face for inserting accessory cards, the housing including a back face, a left and a right lateral face, and a top and a bottom face;
at least two guiding elements protruding from the interior side of said left and right lateral faces, respectively, and extending parallel to and between said top and said bottom face;
wherein:
said guiding elements define an upper slot of a first height between said top face and said guiding elements and a lower slot of a second height between said bottom face and said guiding elements, for receiving accessory cards of first height and second height respectively;
said upper and said lower slots together define a combined slot for receiving an accessory card of a third height;
said guiding elements are split into upper and lower guiding element sections associated to said upper and lower slots, respectively; and
said upper and lower guiding element sections are resiliently arranged on said left and right lateral faces, such that the guiding element section associated to a respective slot is pushed aside by an accessory card of first height being inserted into that slot, such that said accessory card of first height can be received in that slot unobstructed by the associated guiding element section.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A static random access memory (SRAM) cell, comprising:
a first conductive layer including a wordline landing pad extending into a neighboring memory cell in an adjacent row of a memory array, the wordline landing pad in the first conductive layer being electrically isolated from all gate contacts of the neighboring memory cell;
a second conductive layer including a wordline coupled to the wordline landing pad in the first conductive layer;
a first via coupling a gate contact of a pass transistor gate in the SRAM cell to the wordline landing pad in the first conductive layer; and
a second via coupling the wordline landing pad and the wordline of the second conductive layer.
2. The SRAM cell of claim 1, in which the first conductive layer including the wordline landing pad is fabricated with a self-aligned dual patterning process.
3. The SRAM cell of claim 1, in which the first via and the second via are manufactured in a multiple patterning process.
4. The SRAM cell of claim 1, in which the via in a location corresponding to a first via location is omitted in the neighboring memory cell.
5. The SRAM cell of claim 1, comprising a six-transistor memory cell.
6. The SRAM cell of claim 1 incorporated into at least one of a music player, a video player, an entertainment unit, a navigation device, a communications device, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a fixed location data unit, and a computer.
7. A method of fabricating a semiconductor device comprising:
fabricating a pass transistor and a neighbor transistor that is adjacent to the pass transistor on a substrate, the pass transistor and the neighbor transistor both containing a gate contact;
fabricating a first via on the gate contact that is on a pass transistor gate;
forming a first conductive layer on the first via that overlaps both the pass transistor and the neighbor transistor;
fabricating a second via on the first conductive layer; and
fabricating a first wordline on the second via and a second wordline aligned with the neighbor transistor.
8. The method of claim 7, in which fabricating the pass transistor and the neighbor transistor on the substrate comprises:
forming at least two material wells in the substrate;
fabricating an insulating layer over the at least two material wells; and
fabricating a conductive gate on the insulating layer.
9. The method of claim 7, in which a layer of interlayer dielectric material separates the gate contact on the neighbor transistor and the first conductive layer.
10. The method of claim 7, in which a layer of interlayer dielectric material separates the first conductive layer and the second wordline.
11. The method of claim 7, in which the first wordline and the second wordline are fabricated from a second conductive layer.
12. The method of claim 7, further comprising incorporating the semiconductor device into at least one of a music player, a video player, an entertainment unit, a navigation device, a communications device, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a fixed location data unit, and a computer.
13. A static random access memory (SRAM) cell, comprising:
a first conductive layer including a wordline landing pad extending into a neighboring memory cell in an adjacent row of a memory array, the wordline landing pad in the first conductive layer being electrically isolated from all gate contacts of the neighboring memory cell;
a second conductive layer including a wordline coupled to the wordline landing pad in the first conductive layer;
a first means for coupling a gate contact of a pass transistor gate in the SRAM cell to the wordline landing pad in the first conductive layer; and
a second means for coupling the wordline landing pad and the wordline of the second conductive layer.
14. The SRAM cell of claim 13, in which the first conducting layer including the wordline landing pad is fabricated with a self-aligned dual patterning process.
15. The SRAM cell of claim 13, in which the first coupling means and the second coupling means are manufactured in a multiple patterning process.
16. The SRAM cell of claim 13, in which a via in a location corresponding to a location of the first means is omitted in the neighboring memory cell.
17. The SRAM cell of claim 13, comprising a six-transistor memory cell.
18. The SRAM cell of claim 13 incorporated into at least one of a music player, a video player, an entertainment unit, a navigation device, a communications device, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a fixed location data unit, and a computer.
19. A method of fabricating a semiconductor device comprising the steps of:
fabricating a pass transistor and a neighbor transistor that is adjacent to the pass transistor on a substrate, the pass transistor and the neighbor transistor both containing a gate contact;
fabricating a first via on the gate contact that is on a pass transistor gate;
forming a first conductive layer on the first via that overlaps both the pass transistor and the neighbor transistor;
fabricating a second via on the first conductive layer; and
fabricating a first wordline on the second via and a second wordline aligned with the neighbor transistor.
20. The method of claim 19, further comprising the step of incorporating the semiconductor device into at least one of a music player, a video player, an entertainment unit, a navigation device, a communications device, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a fixed location data unit, and a computer.