Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reference cell circuit and method of producing a reference current
- Patent Title (中): 参考电路和产生参考电流的方法
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Application No.: US13610448Application Date: 2012-09-11
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Publication No.: US08665651B1Publication Date: 2014-03-04
- Inventor: Chi-Shun Lin , Seow-Fong Lim , Ming-Huei Shieh
- Applicant: Chi-Shun Lin , Seow-Fong Lim , Ming-Huei Shieh
- Applicant Address: TW Taichung
- Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.
- Current Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Taichung
- Agency: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, P.C.
- Main IPC: G11C11/34
- IPC: G11C11/34 ; G11C16/06 ; G11C7/00 ; G11C7/02

Abstract:
The present invention discloses a reference cell circuit which is applied to a non-volatile memory. The reference cell circuit includes a reference cell array, a first current mirror circuit, and a second current mirror circuit. The reference cell array includes at least one row of floating gate transistors. The first current mirror circuit is arranged to generate a mirror current according to a reference current generated by the reference cell array. The second current mirror circuit is arranged to receive the mirror current and generate an adjusted reference current according to the mirror current and a selected one of a plurality of enable signals, wherein the plurality of enable signals correspond to a plurality operations of the non-volatile memory and the adjusted reference current is arranged to determine logical state of a plurality of memory cells of the non-volatile memory.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140071766A1 REFERENCE CELL CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A REFERENCE CURRENT Public/Granted day:2014-03-13
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