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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2013
Soitec, Crolles Cedex, FR;
Roland Thewes, Puchheim, DE;
SOITEC, Bernin, FR;
Abstract
The disclosure relates to semiconductor memory devices and related methods. A semiconductor memory device comprises: a single-ended sense amplifier circuit for reading data sensed from selected memory cells in a memory array, the sense amplifier having a first node used to feed in a reference signal, a second node coupled to a bit line, and sense transistors responsible for amplifying the content of a selected memory cell during a sense operation, a reference circuit having replica transistors of the sense transistors and further comprising a regulation network designed so that each replica transistor operates in a stable operating point, and wherein the regulation network generates a control voltage that is applied to the sense amplifier circuit.