Invention Grant
- Patent Title: SRAM cell with dynamic split ground and split wordline
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Application No.: US15287274Application Date: 2016-10-06
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Publication No.: US09934843B2Publication Date: 2018-04-03
- Inventor: Robert C. Wong
- 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: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran Cole & Calderon P.C.
- Agent Steven Meyers; Andrew M. Calderon
- Main IPC: G11C5/02
- IPC: G11C5/02 ; G11C11/419 ; G11C11/418 ; G11C8/14

Abstract:
An SRAM cell with dynamic split ground (GND) and split wordline (WL) for extreme scaling is disclosed. The memory cell includes a first access transistor enabled by a first wordline to control access to cross coupled inverters by a first bitline. The memory cell further includes a second access transistor enabled by a second wordline to control access to the cross coupled inverters by a second bitline. The memory cell further includes a split ground line comprising a first ground line (GNDL) separated from a second ground line (GNDR). The GNDL is connected to a transistor of a first inverter of the cross coupled inverters and the GNDR is connected to a first transistor of a second inverter of the cross coupled inverters.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170025169A1 SRAM CELL WITH DYNAMIC SPLIT GROUND AND SPLIT WORDLINE Public/Granted day:2017-01-26
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