US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Jan. 27 for "RC-tuned wordline underdrive circuit" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,046, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"RC-tuned wordline underdrive circuit" was invented by Russell Schreiber (Austin, Texas) and Clinton Harold Parker (Fort Collins, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for both reducing power consumption and increasing read access stability of a memory array. An integrated circuit includes a memory array with memory bit cells arranged as multiple rows and multiple columns. The array also includes multiple word line driver circuits configured to generate a corresponding word line for multiple rows. The array includes an un...