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Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 22, 2019
Applicant:

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;

Inventor:

Jaspal Singh Shah, Ottawa, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/22 (2006.01); G11C 11/00 (2006.01); G11C 11/419 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/419 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device including a memory cell is disclosed. The memory cell includes a first inverter and a second inverter cross-coupled with the first inverter. The first inverter is operated with a first operational voltage and a third operational voltage, and the second inverter is operated with a second operational voltage and a fourth operational voltage. During a write operation of the memory cell, the first operational voltage and the second operational voltage are configured at different voltage levels, and the third operational voltage and the fourth operational voltage are configured at the same voltage level.


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