Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for sense amplifying
- Patent Title (中): 用于感测放大的装置和方法
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Application No.: US13729065Application Date: 2012-12-28
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Publication No.: US09070422B2Publication Date: 2015-06-30
- Inventor: Caleb Yu-Sheng Cho , Jih-Chen Wang , Yu-Fan Lin
- Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Agency: Duane Morris LLP
- Main IPC: G11C7/02
- IPC: G11C7/02 ; G11C7/06 ; G11C7/08 ; G11C11/4091 ; G11C29/02

Abstract:
A sense amplifier includes four sub-circuits: pre-charge, sense enable, sense output, and buffer. The pre-charge sub-circuit provides a voltage between zero volts and the positive power supply (denoted VDD) to the sense enable sub-circuit. The sense enable sub-circuit is configured to adjust the received voltage based on the sensed value of bit lines and sends the adjusted voltage to the sense output sub-circuit. The sense output sub-circuit removes interference, inverts and amplifies the adjusted voltage, and sends an output voltage to the buffer sub-circuit. The buffer sub-circuit amplifies the output voltage of the sense output sub-circuit and provides it to an output bus.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140185400A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SENSE AMPLIFYING Public/Granted day:2014-07-03
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