Invention Grant
US09099993B2 Circuit for reverse biasing inverters for reducing the power consumption of an SRAM memory
有权
用于反向偏置逆变器的电路,用于降低SRAM存储器的功耗
- Patent Title: Circuit for reverse biasing inverters for reducing the power consumption of an SRAM memory
- Patent Title (中): 用于反向偏置逆变器的电路,用于降低SRAM存储器的功耗
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Application No.: US14356562Application Date: 2012-10-18
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Publication No.: US09099993B2Publication Date: 2015-08-04
- Inventor: Olivier Thomas , Adam Makosiej , Andrei Vladimirescu
- Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
- Applicant Address: FR Paris
- Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
- Current Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris
- Agency: Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Priority: FR1160085 20111107
- International Application: PCT/EP2012/070666 WO 20121018
- International Announcement: WO2013/068221 WO 20130516
- Main IPC: G11C5/14
- IPC: G11C5/14 ; G11C11/4074 ; G11C16/30 ; H03K3/012 ; G11C11/412 ; G11C11/417 ; G11C11/41 ; G11C13/00

Abstract:
CMOS integrated circuits with very low consumption when idle, and notably the SRAM volatile memories, are provided. The inverters of the circuit are made up of an NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor. A bias circuit applies a first rear bias voltage NBIAS to the wells of the NMOS transistors and a second rear bias voltage PBIAS to the wells of the PMOS transistors. The bias circuit comprises: a detection array made up of many inverters in parallel, having a common output supplying a logic signal whose value depends on the rear bias voltages applied to the array, a circuit for producing incrementation or decrementation pulses, controlled by the output of the detection array, and an integration circuit linked to the pulse-producing circuit, for producing and varying, progressively by increments in response to these pulses, a bias voltage PBIAS and a bias voltage NBIAS.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140334226A1 CIRCUIT FOR REVERSE BIASING INVERTERS FOR REDUCING THE POWER CONSUMPTION OF AN SRAM MEMORY Public/Granted day:2014-11-13
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