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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 14, 1999
Raymond E. Bloker, San Jose, CA (US);
Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A circuit for generating timing signals for clocking the sensing amplifiers of a SRAM memory array having a plurality of memory cells joined in rows by wordlines and in columns by bitlines including a dummy bitline, a plurality of dummy memory cells joined to the dummy bit column, means for accessing a plurality of the dummy memory cells in parallel to generate a bitline charging current significantly greater than a bitline charging current in a typical operative column of the SRAM memory array, a circuit responsive to current in the dummy bitline for generating a timing signal to sense amplifiers for generating output signals from the operative columns of the SRAM.