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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2016
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Fan Chu, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Shan Sun, Monument, CO (US);
Alan D DeVilbiss, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Thomas Davenport, Denver, CO (US);
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus that includes a reference generating circuit configured to generate a reference signal for a non-volatile memory (NVM) device, the reference generating circuit including a first circuit comprising at least one metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitor, the first circuit generating a first signal component of the reference signal, and a second circuit comprising at least one ferroelectric capacitor, the second circuit generating a second signal component of the reference signal, in which the second signal component is temperature dependent.