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An ultra-low power and high performance single ended sense amplifier for low voltage flash memories

Ngueya et al., 2018

Document ID
13919404894572521698
Author
Ngueya W
Portal J
Aziza H
Mellier J
Ricard S
Publication year
Publication venue
Journal of Low Power Electronics

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An ultra-low power and high performance voltage-mode sense amplifier is presented. Based on charge recycling between a tank capacitor and the bit line parasitic capacitor, a reference voltage is created dynamically and the memory precharge step starts from half the supply …
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