Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Current-mode sense amplifier and reference current circuitry
- Patent Title (中): 电流模式读出放大器和参考电流电路
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Application No.: US14840367Application Date: 2015-08-31
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Publication No.: US09564188B2Publication Date: 2017-02-07
- Inventor: Alexander Fritsch , Gerhard Hellner , Michael Kugel , Rolf Sautter
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC
- Priority: GB1415669.9 20140904
- Main IPC: G11C7/02
- IPC: G11C7/02 ; G11C7/14 ; G11C7/06

Abstract:
An electronic circuit comprising is provided with a current sense amplifier. The amplifier comprises a reference current input terminal, a sense current input terminal, and a first output terminal. The electronic circuit includes a reference current source. The reference current source includes two reference n-FET stacks connected in series, and the reference current input terminal is coupled to a ground terminal via the two reference n-FET stacks. The electronic circuit includes a plurality of memory cells each coupled in parallel via a respective sense n-FET stack to the sense current input terminal. The amplifier is configured to generate a first logical value at the first output terminal of the amplifier in response to a sense current of the sense current input terminal being lower than a reference current of the reference current input terminal. The amplifier is further configured to generate a second logical value at the first output terminal of the amplifier in response to the sense current being higher than the reference current.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160071555A1 Current-Mode Sense Amplifier and Reference Current Circuitry Public/Granted day:2016-03-10
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