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Bitlines and Sense Amplifiers

Wada's model does not apply to memories with column multiplexing. Our model allows column multiplexing using NMOS pass transistors between several pairs of bitlines and a shared sense amp. In our model, the degree of column multiplexing (number of pairs of bitlines per sense amp) is tex2html_wrap1182 .

Although we use the same sense amp as Wada's model, we precharge the bitlines to two NMOS diodes less than tex2html_wrap_inline1184 since the sense amp performs poorly with a common-mode voltage of tex2html_wrap_inline1184 .



Steve Wilton
Tue Jul 30 15:38:35 EDT 1996