Memory device with separately controlled sense amplifiers

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9384790
APP PUB NO 20140029366A1
SERIAL NO

13561673

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A memory device includes a memory array comprising memory cells, sense amplifiers configured to sense data stored in the memory cells of the memory array, and control circuitry configured to generate a plurality of separate sense amplifier control signals for application to respective control inputs of respective ones of the sense amplifiers. For example, the memory device may comprise a row of dummy memory cells each coupled to a dummy wordline. In such an arrangement, the control circuitry may comprise a plurality of logic gates coupled to respective ones of the dummy memory cells, with each such logic gate configured to generate a corresponding one of the separate sense amplifier control signals for a corresponding one of the sense amplifiers as a function of a data transition at a bitline of the corresponding dummy memory cell. The separate sense amplifier control signals may comprise respective sense amplifier enable signals.

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AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE LIMITED1 YISHUN AVENUE 7 SINGAPORE 768923

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Goel, Ankur Bangalore, IN 25 582
Rao, Setti Shanmukheswara Bangalore, IN 11 209
Trivedi, Manish Ghaziabad, IN 11 102

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