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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:
Mar. 28, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 06, 2021
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Kwangseob Shin, Anyang-si, KR;

Jindo Byun, Suwon-si, KR;

Younghoon Son, Yongin-si, KR;

Youngdon Choi, Seoul, KR;

Junghwan Choi, Hwaseong-si, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G11C 11/4091 (2006.01); G11C 11/4074 (2006.01); G11C 11/4076 (2006.01); G11C 11/408 (2006.01); G11C 11/4099 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/4091 (2013.01); G11C 11/4074 (2013.01); G11C 11/4076 (2013.01); G11C 11/4087 (2013.01); G11C 11/4099 (2013.01);
Abstract

A multi-level signal receiver includes a data sampler circuit and a reference voltage generator circuit. The data sampler includes (M−1) sense amplifiers which compare a multi-level signal having one of M voltage levels different from each other with (M−1) reference voltages. The data sampler generates a target data signal including N bits, M is an integer greater than two and N is an integer greater than one. The reference voltage generator generates the (M−1) reference voltages, At least two sense amplifiers of the (M−1) sense amplifiers have different sensing characteristics.


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