Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Memory device including bitline sense amplifier and operating method thereof
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Application No.: US17202466Application Date: 2021-03-16
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Publication No.: US11495284B2Publication Date: 2022-11-08
- Inventor: Jong-Ho Moon , Sung-Hwan Jang
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si
- Agency: Muir Patent Law, PLLC
- Priority: KR10-2020-0088720 20200717,KR10-2021-0028193 20210303
- Main IPC: G11C7/12
- IPC: G11C7/12 ; G11C11/4091 ; G11C11/4074 ; G11C11/4096 ; G11C11/4094 ; G11C11/4076

Abstract:
Disclosed are a memory device and an operating method thereof. The memory device includes a bitline sense amplifier connected to a bitline and a complementary bitline connected to a memory cell, and a sense amplifier driver circuit. The bitline sense amplifier senses and amplifies a voltage difference by developing a voltage of the bitline and a voltage of the complementary bitline. The sense amplifier driver circuit includes a pull-up circuit adjusting a level of a bitline low-level voltage developed by the bitline sense amplifier to be higher than a ground voltage in response to a first pull-up pulse, and a pull-down circuit adjusting the level of the bitline low level adjusted by the pull-up circuit to be equal to the ground voltage in response to a pull-down pulse. A pulse generator generates the first pull-up pulse and the pull-down pulse based on a command received from a host.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220020423A1 MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING BITLINE SENSE AMPLIFIER AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2022-01-20
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