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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:
Feb. 25, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2018
Applicant:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Inventors:

Agostino Marcerola, San Benedetto dei Marsi, IT;

Marco-Domenico Tiburzi, Avezzano, IT;

Stefano Perugini, Popoli, IT;

Assignee:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/14 (2006.01); G06F 1/3203 (2019.01); G06F 1/3234 (2019.01); G05F 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/145 (2013.01); G05F 3/16 (2013.01); G06F 1/3203 (2013.01); G06F 1/3275 (2013.01); G11C 5/147 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods of operating a voltage generation circuit include applying a clock signal to an input of a voltage driver of a stage of the voltage generation circuit, connecting the output of the voltage driver to a first voltage node configured to receive a first voltage when the clock signal has a particular logic level and a voltage level of an output of the voltage driver is less than a threshold, connecting the output of the voltage driver to a second voltage node configured to receive a second voltage, greater than the first voltage, when the clock signal has the particular logic level and the voltage level of the output of the voltage driver is greater than the threshold, and connecting the output of the voltage driver to a third voltage node configured to receive a third voltage, less than the first voltage, when the clock signal has a different logic level.


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