Invention Grant
US07154806B2 Circuit for controlling differential amplifiers in semiconductor memory devices
有权
用于控制半导体存储器件中的差分放大器的电路
- Patent Title: Circuit for controlling differential amplifiers in semiconductor memory devices
- Patent Title (中): 用于控制半导体存储器件中的差分放大器的电路
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Application No.: US11122692Application Date: 2005-05-05
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Publication No.: US07154806B2Publication Date: 2006-12-26
- Inventor: Tae Jin Kang
- Applicant: Tae Jin Kang
- Applicant Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
- Current Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Agency: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP
- Priority: KR10-2004-0090257 20041108
- Main IPC: G11C8/00
- IPC: G11C8/00 ; G11C7/02

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a differential amplifier control circuit in which a signal indicating that all banks are not activated is provided to a differential amplifier, so that the differential amplifier does not operate, thereby reducing unnecessary current consumption in an ICC2N situation. An all bank idle notification unit generates an all bank idle signal notifying that a plurality of banks are not activated using a plurality of bank active signals for activating the plurality of the banks. A differential amplifier controller generates a differential amplifier control signal for disabling a differential amplifier using an all bank idle signal and an internal clock signal. The differential amplifier does not operate in response to the differential amplifier control signal if the plurality of the banks is all inactivated.
Public/Granted literature
- US20060098514A1 Circuit for controlling differential amplifiers in semiconductor memory devices Public/Granted day:2006-05-11
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