Dynamic sense current supply circuit and associated method for reading and characterizing a resistive memory array
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Jan 8, 2013
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Apr 28, 2011
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Oct 23, 2009
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Oct 23, 2009
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A dynamic sense current supply circuit and an associated method for rapidly characterizing a resistive memory array is disclosed. In one embodiment, the disclosed circuit comprises a first and second dynamically programmable current mirror sub-circuit. Responsive to a bank of control signals, each dynamically programmable current mirror sub-circuit provides a dynamically adjustable current scaling factor. These scaling factors are used to scale a supplied reference current to generate a plurality of sense currents which can be used within a plurality of read operations on a resistive memory array. A digital circuit is also provided to sense and store the result of each read operation.
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