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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2007
Applicants:
Uming Ko, Plano, TX (US);
Gordon Gammie, Plano, TX (US);
Sumanth K. Gururajarao, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a dual-mode voltage controller, a method of supplying voltage to SRAM periphery circuits and an integrated circuit. In one embodiment, the dual-mode voltage controller is for use with an SRAM array and includes a voltage switching unit connected to a digital core voltage and an SRAM array voltage to form a structure capable of switching at least one SRAM periphery circuit between the digital core voltage and the SRAM array voltage.