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US 6,721,218 B2Granted
Semiconductor memory device and data read method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorKyu-Nam Lim
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Abstract
A device according to the invention includes memory cells and a current sense amplifier. It also includes a feedback circuit to adjust a gain of the current sense amplifier. The gain is adjusted depending on relative delays of data stored in different ones of the memory cells to be read on the current sense amplifier.
Claims16
A semiconductor memory device, comprising:
- a plurality of memory cells;
- a current sense amplifier;
- and
- a feedback circuit to adjust a gain of the current sense amplifier depending on relative delays of data stored in different ones of the memory cells to be read on the current sense amplifier.
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A semiconductor memory device, comprising:
- a plurality of memory cells;
- a plurality of data IO line pairs;
- a plurality of first current sense amplifying means configured to control a loop gain in response to a control signal, and configured to amplify and output a current difference of each of the plurality of data IO line pairs;
- and
- a feedback circuit configured to adjust a gain of the first current sense amplifiers depending on a relative delay of data stored in different ones of the memory cells that are to be read by the first current sense amplifiers.
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A data read method of a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory cells, the method comprising:
- generating a control signal to control a loop gain of a plurality of current sense amplifiers by detecting a variation of an input impedance of the current sense amplifier when a read command is applied and data are read from the memory cell nearest to the plurality of the current sense amplifiers;
- controlling the loop gain of the plurality of the current sense amplifiers in response to the control signal;
- and
- amplifying a current different of each of a plurality of data IO line pairs by the plurality of the current sense amplifiers to generate a plurality of output signals.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.