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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
May. 11, 2023
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A memory macro includes a tracking wordline driver that drivers a wordline with a suppressed voltage. The suppressed voltage is made lower than the voltage used to drive wordlines in the memory array by an amount that a tracking wordline is driven with a suppressed voltage, which is a voltage that is held below the drain supply voltage. Suppressing the voltage on the tracking wordline causes tracking memory cell with average cell characteristic to emulate the slowest memory cells in a memory array. The tracking wordline with the suppressed voltage may be subjected to a mimicked wordline load. The tracking wordline with the suppressed voltage and the mimicked wordline load may also be used to enable a mimicked write drive used in write tracking. The tracking wordline with the suppressed voltage may also be used as input to a write delay circuit that times write operations.
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