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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Swaroop Ghosh, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Mesut Meterelliyoz, Portland, OR (US);

Faith Hamzaoglu, Portland, OR (US);

Yih Wang, Portland, OR (US);

Kevin X. Zhang, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 (2006.01); G11C 11/4091 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 7/06 (2006.01); G11C 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/4091 (2013.01); G11C 11/5642 (2013.01); G11C 7/065 (2013.01); G11C 7/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a pulsed sense amplifier approach for resolving data on a bit line. A chip is provided which comprises a sense amplifier coupled to first and second DRAM bitlines; and a circuit having a trigger node coupled to the sense amp to transition it from a first state to a second state to trigger the sense amp, the circuit having an element to impede the transition once it is initiated. A chip is described which comprises: a DRAM array having a plurality of bitlines; sense amplifiers to resolve data on the bit lines, and a circuit to slow down resolution of the data by the sense amps after they have been triggered to resolve the data.


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