A high-speed current-mode multilevel identifying circuit for flash memories

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E-86-C, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 229-235

  Lin, Hongchin ^a   Liang, Funian ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Current mode; Flash memory; Multilevel identifying circuit; Offset; Sense amplifier

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PROM;

MULTILEVEL IDENTIFYING CIRCUITS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0042863073     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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