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Sense amplifier circuit

US6265906A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 14, 1998
Grant dateJul 24, 2001
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Expiry dateOct 14, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C2211/5645
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A sense-amplifier circuit for a multivalued information storing memory is featured by a reduced current consumption realized without any elongation of delay time, which circuit comprises plural current-mirror sub-sense-amplifiers corresponding to plural reference potentials VREF, wherein those having higher reference potentials among the sub-sense-amplifiers are provided each with a current-limiting switching element QNX.

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