A Current-Mirror Winner-Take-All Sense Amplifier for Low Voltage SRAMs

被引:0
作者
Jia, Song [1 ]
Xu, Heqing [1 ]
Wu, Fengfeng [1 ]
Wang, Yuan [1 ]
机构
[1] PKU, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
关键词
SRAM; sense amplifier; winner-take-all; high speed;
D O I
10.1587/transele.E96.C.1205
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We propose a current mode sense amplifier that uses a current-mirror to increase the bitline sensing current, which dominates the sensing speed. A comparison of the sensing delay shows that the proposed sense amplifier can provide about 12.6 similar to 15.4% improvement depending on different bitline loads in sensing speed over original WTA scheme.
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页码:1205 / 1207
页数:3
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