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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2011
Navneet Gupta, Ghaziabad, IN;
Prashant Dubey, Greater Noida, IN;
Shaileshkumar Pathak, Greater Noida, IN;
Kaushik Saha, Delhi, IN;
Ashish Kumar, Jharkhand, IN;
R Sai Krishna, Hyderabad, IN;
Navneet Gupta, Ghaziabad, IN;
Prashant Dubey, Greater Noida, IN;
ShaileshKumar Pathak, Greater Noida, IN;
Kaushik Saha, Delhi, IN;
Ashish Kumar, Jharkhand, IN;
R Sai Krishna, Hyderabad, IN;
STMicroelectronics International N.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
An embodiment of a sense amplifier includes a sense circuit and a monitor circuit. The sense circuit is configured to convert a first signal that corresponds to data stored in a memory cell into a second signal that corresponds to the data, and the monitor circuit is configured to indicate a reliability of the second signal. The monitor circuit allows, for example, adjusting a parameter of a memory in which the memory cell is disposed to increase the read accuracy, and may also allow recognizing and correcting an error due to an invalid second signal.