Invention Grant
US07921388B2 Wordline booster design structure and method of operating a wordine booster circuit
有权
Wordline助推器设计结构和操作字提升电路的方法
- Patent Title: Wordline booster design structure and method of operating a wordine booster circuit
- Patent Title (中): Wordline助推器设计结构和操作字提升电路的方法
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Application No.: US11847759Application Date: 2007-08-30
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Publication No.: US07921388B2Publication Date: 2011-04-05
- Inventor: Sebastian Ehrenreich , Juergen Pille , Otto Torreiter
- Applicant: Sebastian Ehrenreich , Juergen Pille , Otto Torreiter
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Michael J. LeStrange
- Priority: EP06120846 20060918
- Main IPC: G06F17/50
- IPC: G06F17/50 ; G11C16/06

Abstract:
The invention relates to a wordline booster circuit, especially an SRAM-wordline booster circuit, comprising a driving element (20) for shifting a voltage level of a charge storage element (50) for storing a charge necessary to generate a boosted voltage (Vb), a feedback element (30) for controlling the switching state of a charging element (40), wherein the charging element (40) is actively switchable between a turned-off state during a first time interval and a turned-on state during a second time interval, and an output port (14) for supplying the boost voltage to at least one wordline-driver circuit (100) of a memory device (200). The invention relates also to an operation method for such a wordline booster circuit as well as a memory array implementation on an integrated circuit, especially an SRAM memory array, with a wordline booster circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080068902A1 Wordline Booster Design Structure and Method of Operating a Wordline Booster Circuit Public/Granted day:2008-03-20
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