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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2013
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Mark Pyo, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Hyun Taek Jung, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A semiconductor device and a method of operating the same, the semiconductor device including a sense amplifier connected between a bit line and a complementary bit line; a first power supply circuit configured to select between supplying a power supply voltage to the first node and blocking the power supply voltage from the first node in response to a first control signal; a second power supply circuit configured to select between supplying a ground voltage to the second node and blocking the ground voltage from the second node in response to a second control signal; and a first boosting circuit configured to boost a voltage at the first node in response to a third control signal.