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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 05, 2017
Applicant:

Arm Ltd., Cambridge, GB;

Inventors:

Bal S. Sandhu, Fremont, CA (US);

Cezary Pietrzyk, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Robert Campbell Aitken, San Jose, CA (US);

George McNeil Lattimore, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

ARM Ltd., Cambridge, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/02 (2006.01); G11C 7/22 (2006.01); H03F 3/45 (2006.01); G11C 7/06 (2006.01); G11C 7/08 (2006.01); G11C 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/222 (2013.01); G11C 7/062 (2013.01); G11C 7/08 (2013.01); G11C 13/004 (2013.01); G11C 13/0007 (2013.01); G11C 13/0069 (2013.01); H03F 3/45179 (2013.01); G11C 2013/009 (2013.01); G11C 2013/0042 (2013.01); G11C 2013/0045 (2013.01); G11C 2013/0078 (2013.01); G11C 2213/15 (2013.01); H03F 2200/222 (2013.01); H03F 2200/471 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45044 (2013.01);
Abstract

Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present techniques provide an amplification circuit comprising a sense amplifier and at least one Correlated Electron Switch (CES) configured to provide a signal to the sense amplifier. The sense amplifier outputs an amplified version of the input signal depending on the signal provided by the CES element. The signal provided by the CES element depends on the state of the CES material. The CES element provides a stable impedance to the sense amplifier, which may improve the reliability of reading data from the bit line, and reduce the number of errors introduced during the reading.


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