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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2002
Manoj K. Sinha, Boise, ID (US);
Ram Krishnamurthy, Portland, OR (US);
Atila Alvandpour, Portland, OR (US);
Manoj K. Sinha, Boise, ID (US);
Ram Krishnamurthy, Portland, OR (US);
Atila Alvandpour, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A high-performance, low energy amplifier circuit for the detection and amplification of a voltage differential includes a current conveyor and a sense amplifier. The current conveyor includes a pair of cross-linked transistors and a pair of pass transistors. The sense amplifier includes four transistors forming a cross-linked current sense amplifier. The current sense amplifier detects a current differential between complementary bit lines, develops a differential voltage based on the current differential, amplifies the differential voltage and outputs the amplified differential voltage.