Abstract
This paper describes a new bit-line sensing scheme that minimizes the sensitivity degradation caused by the electrical imbalance in a sense amplifier composed of scaled-down transistors. The new sensing scheme incorporates an offset compensating technique in a direct bit-line sensing scheme using a current-mirror differential amplifier. The compensation is performed by means of a simple negative feedback method that accomplishes cancellation of the total electrical imbalance in the sense amplifier with a short presetting time. The features of the circuit have been examined using simple DRAM test chips fabricated with a 0.5 /spl mu/m CMOS process. Experimental results indicate that the magnitude of the imbalance of the sense amplifier is reduced to one-sixth by introducing the offset compensating scheme as compared to the conventional sensing scheme. >
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