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公开(公告)号:US12051465B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-30
申请号:US17812485
申请日:2022-07-14
Applicant: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.
Inventor: Chandrahasa Reddy Dinnipati , Bipul C. Paul , Ramesh Raghavan
CPC classification number: G11C13/004 , G11C11/1673 , G11C2013/0054 , G11C2213/79
Abstract: Disclosed is a sense circuit with first and second branches connected to first and second inputs of an amplifier. The first branch includes series-connected first transistors between a voltage rail and a data line and a first node between two first transistors and connected to the first input. First transistors on either side of the first node receive corresponding gate bias voltages. The second branch includes series-connected second transistors between the voltage rail and a reference device and a second node between two second transistors and connected to the second input. One first transistor and one second transistor share a common control signal. The first and second branches independently and concurrently generate data and reference voltages on the first and second nodes and the difference between them is sensed by the amplifier. Also disclosed are a non-volatile memory structure incorporating the sense circuit and a method.
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公开(公告)号:US11881241B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-23
申请号:US17709525
申请日:2022-03-31
Applicant: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.
Inventor: Chandrahasa Reddy Dinnipati , Ramesh Raghavan , Bipul C. Paul
CPC classification number: G11C11/1673 , G11C7/06 , G11C11/1655 , G11C11/1657 , G11C11/1675
Abstract: A structure includes an array of nonvolatile memory cells, wordlines and bitlines connected to the nonvolatile memory cells, sense amplifiers connected to the nonvolatile memory cells, and reference cells connected to the sense amplifiers. Each of the reference cells has a transistor connected to a variable resistor, one of the wordlines, a reference bitline separate from the bitlines, and the sense amplifiers.
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公开(公告)号:US20240021243A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-18
申请号:US17812485
申请日:2022-07-14
Applicant: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.
Inventor: Chandrahasa Reddy Dinnipati , Bipul C. Paul , Ramesh Raghavan
CPC classification number: G11C13/004 , G11C11/1673 , G11C2213/79 , G11C2013/0054
Abstract: Disclosed is a sense circuit with first and second branches connected to first and second inputs of an amplifier. The first branch includes series-connected first transistors between a voltage rail and a data line and a first node between two first transistors and connected to the first input. First transistors on either side of the first node receive corresponding gate bias voltages. The second branch includes series-connected second transistors between the voltage rail and a reference device and a second node between two second transistors and connected to the second input. One first transistor and one second transistor share a common control signal. The first and second branches independently and concurrently generate data and reference voltages on the first and second nodes and the difference between them is sensed by the amplifier. Also disclosed are a non-volatile memory structure incorporating the sense circuit and a method.
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公开(公告)号:US11881258B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-23
申请号:US17377769
申请日:2021-07-16
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc.
Inventor: Ramesh Raghavan , Balaji Jayaraman , Chandrahasa Reddy Dinnipati
IPC: G11C11/419 , H04L9/32 , H03K19/21 , G11C11/418
CPC classification number: G11C11/419 , H03K19/21 , H04L9/3278 , G11C11/418
Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus including: a sense amplifier coupled to a memory array and having a set of output terminals, a latch coupled to a first output terminal of the sense amplifier, and a comparator coupled to the latch and a second output terminal of the sense amplifier.
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公开(公告)号:US12176053B2
公开(公告)日:2024-12-24
申请号:US17380688
申请日:2021-07-20
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc.
Inventor: Ramesh Raghavan , Balaji Jayaraman , Ming Yin
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to integrated circuits, and more particularly, to a wordline system architecture supporting an erase operation and current-voltage (I-V) characterization and methods of manufacture and operation. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a structure including: a twin cell circuit which is connected to a wordline of a memory array; a sourceline driver which is connected to a sourceline of the memory array for providing a cell level current-voltage (I-V) access of the twin cell circuit; and an integrated analog multiplexor which is connected to the twin cell circuit.
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公开(公告)号:US20240304258A1
公开(公告)日:2024-09-12
申请号:US18178926
申请日:2023-03-06
Applicant: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.
Inventor: Ramesh Raghavan , Chandrahasa Reddy Dinnipati , Philipp Bernhard Mosch
Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a memory assembly with body biasing and related methods to operate such a structure. A structure according to the disclosure includes a memory cell having a pair of memory transistors each having a gate coupled to a word line. A pair of diode-connected transistors each have a source/drain (S/D) terminal coupled to a respective S/D terminal of one of the pair of memory transistors through a multiplexer. A bias voltage source is coupled to each body of the pair of diode-connected transistors or each body of the pair of memory transistors. The bias voltage source applies a different bias voltage to each body of the pair of diode-connected transistors or each body of the pair of memory transistors.
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公开(公告)号:US20230012844A1
公开(公告)日:2023-01-19
申请号:US17377769
申请日:2021-07-16
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc.
Inventor: Ramesh Raghavan , Balaji Jayaraman , Chandrahasa Reddy Dinnipati
IPC: G11C11/419 , H03K19/21 , H04L9/32
Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus including: a sense amplifier coupled to a memory array and having a set of output terminals, a latch coupled to a first output terminal of the sense amplifier, and a comparator coupled to the latch and a second output terminal of the sense amplifier.
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公开(公告)号:US11329836B1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-10
申请号:US17199515
申请日:2021-03-12
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc.
Inventor: Toshiaki Kirihata , Balaji Jayaraman , Chandrahasa Reddy Dinnipati , Ramesh Raghavan
Abstract: A Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) structure includes an array of twin cells divided into two portions: one with first columns and one with second columns. Cells in each first column are connected to a corresponding pair of first bitlines. Cells in each second column are connected to a corresponding pair of second bitlines. A first column decoder is connected to the first bitlines and to a first input of sense amplifier (SA) and a second column decoder is connected to the second bitlines and to a second input of SA. Each read operation to generate a bit is directed to a first cell in a first column and a second cell in a second column and, during the read operation, signals on only one first bitline of the first column containing the first cell and only one second bitline of the second column containing the second cell are compared.
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公开(公告)号:US11056208B1
公开(公告)日:2021-07-06
申请号:US16801728
申请日:2020-02-26
Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. INC.
Inventor: Balaji Jayaraman , Ramesh Raghavan , Rajesh Reddy Tummuru , Toshiaki Kirihata
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data dependent sense amplifier with symmetric margining. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a structure including a bias generator circuit that is configured to provide symmetric margining between two logic states of a memory circuit.
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公开(公告)号:US20250079343A1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-06
申请号:US18240699
申请日:2023-08-31
Applicant: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.
Inventor: David Charles Pritchard , Ramesh Raghavan , Thirunavukkarasu Ranganathan , Rajesh Reddy Tummuru , Benoit Francois Claude Ramadout , Luca Pirro
Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a structure and related method for a gate over semiconductor regions that are not aligned. Structures according to the disclosure include a first semiconductor region extending from a first widthwise end to a second widthwise end within a substrate. A second semiconductor region is adjacent the first semiconductor region and extends from a first widthwise end to a second widthwise end within the substrate. The second widthwise end of the second semiconductor region is non-aligned with the second widthwise end of the first semiconductor region. A gate structure is over the substrate and extends widthwise over the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region.
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