Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and systems to selectively boost an operating voltage of, and controls to an 8T bit-cell array and/or other logic blocks
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Application No.: US16285057Application Date: 2019-02-25
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Publication No.: US10984855B2Publication Date: 2021-04-20
- Inventor: Jaydeep P. Kulkarni , Bibiche M. Geuskens , James Tschanz , Vivek K. De , Muhammed M. Khellah
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Green, Howard & Mughal LLP
- Main IPC: G11C11/419
- IPC: G11C11/419 ; G11C5/14 ; G11C7/12 ; G11C8/10 ; H01L27/11 ; G11C7/08 ; G11C11/4074 ; G11C11/412 ; G11C11/417 ; G11C11/418 ; G11C13/00 ; G11C29/02 ; G11C8/08

Abstract:
Methods and systems to provide a multi-Vcc environment, such as to selectively boost an operating voltage of a logic block and/or provide a level-shifted control to the logic block. A multi-Vcc environment may be implemented to isolate a Vmin-limiting logic block from a single-Vcc environment, such as to reduce Vmin and/or improve energy efficiency in the single-Vcc environment. The logic block may include bit cells of a register file, a low-level processor cache, and/or other memory system. A cell Vcc may be boosted during a read mode and/or write wordlines (WWLs) and/or read wordlines (RWLs) may be asserted with boost. A wordline decoder may include a voltage level shifter with differential split-level logic, and a dynamic NAND, which may include NAND logic, a keeper circuit, and logic to delay a keeper control based on a delay of the level shifter to reduce contention during an initial NAND evaluation phase.
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