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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2009
Applicant:
Tyler Thorp, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Tyler Thorp, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
SanDisk 3D LLC, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 3/26 (2006.01); G05F 3/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are described that develop a reference voltage that is based on a difference between a threshold voltage of a first transistor and a threshold voltage of a second transistor, and further based on a difference between a gate overdrive voltage of the first transistor and a gate overdrive voltage of the second transistor.