Total dose irradiation of various CMOS SRAMs is shown to imprint the pattern stored in the memory during irradiation. This imprinted pattern is the preferred state of the memory at subsequent power-up. Imprinting can occur at dose levels significantly below the failure level of the devices and is consistent with the bias dependent radiation induced threshold shifts of the individual transistors of the memory cells. However, before total imprinting occurs, other unusual imprinting phenomena can occur, such as a reverse imprinting effect seen in SOS memories, which is probably related to the bias dependence of back-channel leakage.
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