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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2014
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventor:
Srinivasa Raghavan Sridhara, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/40 (2006.01); G11C 11/417 (2006.01); G11C 11/412 (2006.01); G11C 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/417 (2013.01); G11C 5/148 (2013.01); G11C 11/412 (2013.01);
Abstract
In an embodiment of the invention, power is provided to an SRAM array without causing latch-up by charging the positive voltage node in the SRAM array and the Nwell regions in the SRAM at approximately the same rate.