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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald J Coleman, Jr, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365208 ; 36518911 ;
Abstract
A semiconductor memory device sensing circuit (400) is disclosed. The circuit includes a number of sense amplifiers (402), each of which is coupled to a first supply node (414) by a first driver device (P404-0 to P404-n), and to a second supply node (420) by a second driver device (N404-0 to N404-n). An increased driving current capability is provided by a number of first boost capacitors (C400) coupled between the first supply node (414) and an intermediate voltage (Vplate), and a number of second boost capacitors (C402) coupled between the second supply node (420) and the intermediate voltage (Vplate).