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AssigneeMicron Technology, Inc.
InventorsYang Lu, John David Porter, Luoqi Li, Wesley Bryan Butler, Christopher John Kawamura, Kang-Yong Kim
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Apparatuses and techniques for sharing a sense amplifier between memory cells of a memory device are described. To enable sharing of a sense amplifier between two memory cells, a memory device includes switching devices that selectively couple bitlines of two memory cells to a single sense amplifier. During a first time period, for a differential sense amplifier, the switching devices are controlled to connect terminals of the sense amplifier to bitlines of a first memory cell and to disconnect bitlines of a second memory cell from the terminals of the sense amplifier. During a second time period, the switching devices are controlled to connect terminals of the sense amplifier to the bitlines of the second memory cell and disconnect the bitlines of the first memory cell from the terminals of the sense amplifier. Accordingly, a single sense amplifier may be utilized to read the stored values from different memory cells.
A memory device comprising:
A method performed by a memory device to share a sense amplifier between memory cells, the method comprising:
An apparatus comprising:
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