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Article: California, Oregon Inventors Develop Clamping Circuit
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 1 -- Dinesh Somasekhar, Yibin Ye and James W. Tschanz, all from Portland, Ore., Vivek K. De of Beaverton, Ore., Muhammad M. Khellah of Lake Oswego, Ore., and Stephen H. Tang of Pleasanton, Calif., have developed a method for limiting a drop of a supply voltage.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are provided for limiting a drop of a supply voltage in an static random access memory device to retain the state of the memory during a sleep mode(IDLE) state. The apparatus may include a memory array, a sleep device, and a clamping circuit. The clamping circuit may be configured to activate the sleep device when a voltage drop ...