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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2013
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/16 (2006.01); G11C 11/412 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01); G11C 11/413 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/412 (2013.01); G11C 7/1075 (2013.01); G11C 11/413 (2013.01);
Abstract
This invention relates generally to a memory cell. The embodiments of the present invention provide a SRAM cell and a SRAM cell array comprising such SRAM cell. The SRAM cell according to the embodiments of the present invention includes a pull-up transistor and a pull-down transistor, such that it is unnecessary to pre-charge a pre-read bit line at the time of performing read operation. By adopting the method of the present invention, generation of leakage current can be suppressed and hence power consumption of SRAM chip can be reduced.