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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2004
Applicants:
Deepak Sabharwal, New Delhi, IN;
Alexander Shubat, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Deepak Sabharwal, New Delhi, IN;
Alexander Shubat, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Virage Logic Corp., Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/00 (2006.01); G11C 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A source-biasing mechanism for leakage reduction in SRAM. In standby mode, wordlines are deselected and a source-biasing potential is provided to SRAM cells. In read mode, a selected wordline deactivates the source-biasing potential provided to the selected row of SRAM cells, whereas the remaining SRAM cells on the selected bitline column continue to be source-biased.