T. Ooishi et al., A WELL-SYNCHRONIZED SENSING EQUALIZING METHOD FOR SUB-1.0-V OPERATINGADVANCED DRAMS, IEICE transactions on electronics, E77C(5), 1994, pp. 762-770
We propose an advanced DRAM array driving technique which can achieve
low-voltage operation, which we call a well-synchronized sensing and e
qualizing method. This method sets the DRAM array free from the body e
ffect, achieves a small influence of the short channel effect, and red
uces the leakage current. The sense and restore amplifier and equalize
r can operate rapidly under a low-voltage operating condition such as
1.0 V V(CC). Therefore, we can make determining the V(th) easy for the
satisfaction of the high-speed, the low-power dissipation, and a simp
le device structure. The well-synchronized sensing and equalizing meth
od is applicable to low-voltage operating DRAM's with capacity of 256
Mbits and more.