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US 2004/0170078 A1Published application
Read-biasing and amplifying system
AssigneeMicron Technology, Inc.
InventorMichael S. Briner
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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.
Claims8
A read-biasing and amplifying system, comprising:
- a first read-biasing and amplifying circuit;
- a second read-biasing and amplifying circuit;
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- a differential amplifier connected between the first circuit and the second circuit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.