发明名称 AN AREA-EFFICIENT PROCESS-AND-TEMPERATURE-ADAPTIVE SELF-TIME SCHEME FOR PERFORMANCE AND POWER IMPROVEMENT
摘要 In certain embodiments, a method and apparatus for adjusting the timing of a sense-amplifier read operation in an SRAM integrated memory circuit to overcome process-and-temperature variations are disclosed. A charge-injection pull-up transistor is provided to adjust the rate at which a signal line (e.g., a tracking bit line (TBL) and/or a clock signal (e.g., GCLKB)) transitions from one voltage level to another voltage level. A process-and-temperature-dependent bias circuit is provided to control the charge-injection pull-up transistor. The bias circuit causes the charge-injection pull-up transistor to adjust the discharge rate or transition rate of the signal line to compensate for timing delays caused by process or temperature variations.
申请公布号 IN5594CH2013(A) 申请公布日期 2015.06.12
申请号 IN2013CHE5594 申请日期 2013.12.04
申请人 LSI CORPORATION 发明人 ANKUR GOEL;DHARMENDRA KUMAR RAI;BISWA BHUSAN SAHOO
分类号 H01J 主分类号 H01J
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