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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2007
John E. Barth, Jr., Williston, VT (US);
Geordie M. Braceras, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Harold Pilo, Underhill, VT (US);
John E. Barth, Jr., Williston, VT (US);
Geordie M. Braceras, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Harold Pilo, Underhill, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A design structure embodied in a machine readable medium used in a design process for small signal sensing during a read operation of a static random access memory (SRAM) cell includes coupling a pair of complementary sense amplifier data lines to a corresponding pair of complementary bit lines associated with the SRAM cell, and setting a sense amplifier so as to amplify a signal developed on the sense amplifier data lines, wherein the bit line pair remains coupled to the sense amplifier data lines at the time the sense amplifier is set.