Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Memory devices comprising a write assist circuit
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Application No.: US15840601Application Date: 2017-12-13
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Publication No.: US10885954B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: Sang-Yeop Baeck , Inhak Lee , SangShin Han , Tae-Hyung Kim , JaeSeung Choi , Sunghyun Park , Hyunsu Choi
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si
- Agency: Myers Bigel, P.A.
- Priority: KR10-2017-0046849 20170411
- Main IPC: G11C7/10
- IPC: G11C7/10 ; G11C11/419 ; G11C11/4096 ; G11C7/12 ; G11C5/14 ; G11C8/08 ; G11C8/16 ; G11C11/412

Abstract:
A memory device includes a first write assist circuit providing a cell voltage or a write assist voltage to a first memory cell connected with a first bit line pair, a first write driver that provides write data to the first memory cell through the first bit line pair, a second write assist circuit that provides the cell voltage or the write assist voltage to a second memory cell connected with a second bit line pair, and a second write driver that provides write data to the second memory cell through the second bit line pair. One of the first and second write assist circuits provides the write assist voltage in response to a column selection signal for selecting one write driver, which provides write data, from among the first, and second write drivers, and the other thereof provides the cell voltage in response to the column selection signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180294018A1 MEMORY DEVICES COMPRISING A WRITE ASSIST CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2018-10-11
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