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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2019
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Suresh Balasubramanian, Dallas, TX (US);
Stephen Wayne Spriggs, Murphy, TX (US);
George B. Jamison, Murphy, TX (US);
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed that improve performance while reading memory. The method includes initializing an output of a of a sensing circuit to be a first logic high value, obtaining, from the memory, a first current corresponding to a memory bit stored in the memory, replicating the first current, determining whether the replicated first current is greater than a second current, and in response to determining that the replicated first current is greater than the second current, generating a second logic high value at the output of the sensing circuit.