US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on May 26 for "Power mode wake-up for memory on different power domains" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,173, issued on May 26, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Power mode wake-up for memory on different power domains" was invented by Che-Ju Yeh (Kaoshiung, Taiwan), Hau-Tai Shieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi-Tzu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes an array of memory cells and a plurality of peripheral circuits operably coupled to the memory array. A power control circuit may be configured to individually control an application of power to each of the plurality of peripheral circuits and the array of memory cells. Inserting a switch device across the diff...