Static information storage and retrieval – Floating gate – Particular biasing
Patent
1998-08-20
2000-08-22
Zarabian, A.
Static information storage and retrieval
Floating gate
Particular biasing
36518511, 36518525, G11C 1134
Patent
active
061082376
ABSTRACT:
A fast-sensing amplifier for a flash memory comprised of a plurality of floating-gate memory devices and having a column line selectively coupled to the devices is disclosed. The column line is quickly discharged to ground before a read-biasing and amplifying circuit quickly pulls up the line to the read-bias potential at a particular memory device. This potential is compared to a sense-reference potential by a differential amplifier within the fast-sensing amplifier. The binary state of the particular memory device is provided as the output of the fast-sensing amplifier.
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Zarabian A.
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