US Patent Issued to SambaNova Systems on Sept. 29 for "Scannable SRAM" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,528, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Scannable SRAM" was invented by Paul Jordan (Austin, Texas) and Thomas Ziaja (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scannable memory cell includes an amplifier configured in a positive feedback loop, with the amplifier output coupled to the scan output SO terminal. The memory cell further has a data access switch coupled between the amplifier output and the bit line BL terminal, and a scan access switch coupled between the amplifier input and the scan input SI terminal. Control terminals of both switches are coupled to the word line WL and ...