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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
Applicant:
Kilopass Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Chinh Vo, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Kilopass Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 (2006.01); G11C 17/18 (2006.01); G11C 17/16 (2006.01); G11C 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 17/18 (2013.01); G11C 17/16 (2013.01); G11C 7/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A differential current sensing circuit architecture is used with an integrated circuit NVM memory block in which a selected memory cell and a related complementary memory cell are accessed at the same time for reading. The circuit architecture is used not only for normal operations for reading the logic states of a selected memory cell and its complementary memory cell after programming, but also for reading the logic states of a selected memory cell and its complementary memory cell before programming for the detecting of faults in memory cells.