Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bit cell internal voltage control
- Patent Title (中): 位单元内部电压控制
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Application No.: US13731084Application Date: 2012-12-30
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Publication No.: US08947953B2Publication Date: 2015-02-03
- Inventor: Wei Min Chan , Yi-Tzu Chen , Wei-Cheng Wu , Yen-Huei Chen , Hau-Tai Shieh
- Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
- Applicant Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
- Current Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Main IPC: G11C7/10
- IPC: G11C7/10 ; G11C5/14 ; G11C7/22 ; G11C11/419

Abstract:
Among other things, techniques for facilitating a write operation to a bit cell are provided. A pulse generator initializes lowering of an internal voltage level associated with a bit cell that is to be written to by a write operation. In this way, the bit cell is placed into a writeable voltage state, such that a potential of the bit cell can be overcome by the write operation. A voltage detector sends a reset signal to the pulse generator based upon the pulse generator lowering the internal voltage level past a reset trigger level. Responsive to receiving the reset signal, the pulse generator initializes charging of the internal voltage level to an original voltage level. In this way, the lowering of the internal voltage level is controlled so that one or more other bit cells are not affected (e.g., suffer data retention failure) by the relatively lower internal voltage level.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140185363A1 BIT CELL INTERNAL VOLTAGE CONTROL Public/Granted day:2014-07-03
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