Recognition system and SRAM cell thereof
View Patent ↗A static random-access memory (SRAM) cell includes a first inverter and a second inverter being cross-coupled; a first access transistor that accesses an output of the first inverter under control of a word line; a second access transistor that accesses an output of the second inverter under control of the word line; a first passage transistor that passes a common-mode voltage, controlled by the output of the first inverter; a second passage transistor that passes an input signal, controlled by the output of the second inverter; and a capacitor switchably coupled to receive the common-mode voltage and the input signal through the first passage transistor and the second passage transistor respectively.
1. A static random-access memory (SRAM) cell, comprising:
a first inverter connected between ground and a power;
a second inverter connected between the ground and the power, the first inverter and the second inverter being cross-coupled;
a first access transistor that accesses an output of the first inverter under control of a word line, the output of the first inverter being then transferred via a first bit line;
a second access transistor that accesses an output of the second inverter under control of the word line, the output of the second inverter being then transferred via a second bit line;
a first passage transistor that passes a common-mode voltage, controlled by the output of the first inverter;
a second passage transistor that passes an input signal, controlled by the output of the second inverter;
a capacitor switchably coupled to receive the common-mode voltage and the input signal through the first passage transistor and the second passage transistor respectively; and
a switch, via which the capacitor is switchably connected to outputs of the first passage transistor and the second passage transistor, the switch being controlled by a sample clock signal.
2. The SRAM cell of claim 1 , wherein the switch is closed in a sampling phase, during which a bottom plate of the capacitor performs sampling to result in a sampled voltage, while a top plate of the capacitor is coupled to the common-mode voltage; the switch is open in a quantization phase, during which the bottom plate of the capacitor is switchably coupled to a reference voltage via an inverted switch controlled by an inverted sample clock signal of inverted polarity with respect to the sample clock signal, while the sampled voltage is squeezed to the top plate of the capacitor.
3. The SRAM cell of claim 1 , wherein the first inverter comprises a first transistor and a second transistor with a type opposite the first transistor connected in series between the ground and the power; and the second inverter comprises a third transistor and a fourth transistor with a type opposite the third transistor connected in series between the ground and the power.