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Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2014
Applicant:

Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology Inc., Hsinchu, TW;

Inventor:

Chung-Zen Chen, Hsinchu, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/06 (2006.01); G11C 5/14 (2006.01); G11C 7/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/147 (2013.01); G11C 7/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

A voltage regulator including an over-drive circuit and a control circuit is illustrated. The over-drive circuit receives a first voltage signal output from a sensing amplifier in a DRAM circuit, and regulates the first voltage signal according to an over-drive signal. The a control circuit electrically connected to the over-drive circuit receives a sense signal, and outputs the over-drive signal according to the sense signal, wherein the sense signal is asserted when a bit line in the DRAM circuit is sensed that an restoring and operation is performed. The over-drive signal goes down to a level of a second voltage signal from a current level thereof dependent on an external power merely when the sense signal is asserted but has not been asserted for a delay time, or otherwise, the over-drive signal is equal to the external power.


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