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Patent No.:

US 8447547 B1

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Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2009
Applicants:

Seong-ook Jung, Seoul, KR;

Seung-chul Song, Austin, TX (US);

Hyunkook Park, Seoul, KR;

Inventors:

Seong-Ook Jung, Seoul, KR;

Seung-Chul Song, Austin, TX (US);

Hyunkook Park, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/18 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that estimates a total static noise margin of a bit cell of a memory. The method includes determining a correlation coefficient of a left static noise margin of the bit cell as compared to a right static noise margin of the bit cell and estimating a total static noise margin of the bit cell by evaluating an analytical function based on the correlation coefficient.


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