MOS TRANSISTOR OFFSET-CANCELLING DIFFERENTIAL CURRENT-LATCHED SENSE AMPLIFIER

    公开(公告)号:EP3516654A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-31

    申请号:EP17772855.7

    申请日:2017-09-18

    IPC分类号: G11C7/06 G11C11/16 G11C7/08

    摘要: Metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor offset-cancelling (OC), zero-sensing (ZS) dead zone, current-latched sense amplifiers (SAs) (CLSAs) (OCZS-SAs) for sensing differential voltages are provided. An OCZS-SA is configured to amplify received differential data and reference input voltages with a smaller sense amplifier offset voltage to provide larger sense margin between different storage states of memory bitcell(s). The OCZS-SA is configured to cancel out offset voltages of input and complement input transistors, and keep the input and complement input transistors in their activated state during sensing phases so that sensing is not performed in their “dead zones” when their gate-to-source voltage (Vgs) is below their respective threshold voltages. In other aspects, sense amplifier capacitors are configured to directly store the data and reference input voltages at gates of the input and complement input transistors during voltage capture phases to avoid additional layout area that would otherwise be consumed with additional sensing capacitor circuits.