US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Aug. 25 for "Bitcell power tracking scheme for transient voltage collapse write assist" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,877, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Bitcell power tracking scheme for transient voltage collapse write assist" was invented by Che-Wei Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example is a method. A pseudo array supply voltage (VDDAI) of a bitcell power tracking column for a memory array is determined by a write assist circuit coupled to the memory array. An actual VDDAI provided to a bitcell in the memory array during a write operation, based on the pseudo VDDAI of the bitcell power tracking column, is tracked by the write assist circuit. A collapse level of the actual VDDA...