ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,548, issued on June 2, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Power supply generator assist" was invented by Yen-An Chang (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Po-Hao Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Yi-Chun Shih (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system and method reduce on-chip power IR drop caused by large write current, to increase the write IO number or improve write throughput and to suppress write voltage ripple at the start and end of a write operation. The disclosed systems and methods are described in relation to stabilizing the bit line voltage for MRAMs, however, the disc...