Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus to improve performance while reading a one-time-programmable memory
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Application No.: US16728975Application Date: 2019-12-27
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Publication No.: US11170864B2Publication Date: 2021-11-09
- Inventor: Suresh Balasubramanian , Stephen Wayne Spriggs , George B. Jamison
- Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Valerie M. Davis; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: G11C17/00
- IPC: G11C17/00 ; G11C17/18 ; H03K17/687 ; H03K17/693 ; G11C17/16

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed that improve performance while reading memory. The method includes initializing an output of a of a sensing circuit to be a first logic high value, obtaining, from the memory, a first current corresponding to a memory bit stored in the memory, replicating the first current, determining whether the replicated first current is greater than a second current, and in response to determining that the replicated first current is greater than the second current, generating a second logic high value at the output of the sensing circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200265906A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE WHILE READING A ONE-TIME-PROGRAMMABLE MEMORY Public/Granted day:2020-08-20
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