A low power current sensing scheme for CMOS SRAM

Records of the IEEE International Workshop on Memory Technology, Design and Testing

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 37-43

  Wang, H ^a   Liu, P C ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; STATIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

CURRENT CONVEYORS; CURRENT SENSING SCHEMES; DIFFERENTIAL CURRENT; LOW POWER CURRENT-SENSING; POWER REDUCTIONS; SENSE AMPLIFIER; SENSING SPEED; TIMING CONTROL;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 84966387154     PISSN: 10874852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MTDT.1996.782489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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