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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2004
David C. Lawson, Haymarket, VA (US);
Edward Maher, Manassas, VA (US);
Shankarnarayana Ramaswamy, Chantilly, VA (US);
Tri Minh Hoang, Clifton, VA (US);
David C. Lawson, Haymarket, VA (US);
Edward Maher, Manassas, VA (US);
Shankarnarayana Ramaswamy, Chantilly, VA (US);
Tri Minh Hoang, Clifton, VA (US);
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Abstract
A sense amplifier for static random access memories is disclosed. The sense amplifier includes a pair of inverters cross-coupled to each other. The sense amplifier also includes means for equalizing the charges within the pair of inverters before performing a sense operation, and means for sensing a current difference between a bitline and its complement from a memory cell during the sense operation.