US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on May 13 for "Multipurpose wordline underdrive circuits, devices, and systems" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,311, issued on May 13, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Multipurpose wordline underdrive circuits, devices, and systems" was invented by Sahilpreet Singh (Markham, Canada) and Russell Schreiber (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multipurpose wordline underdrive circuit includes a wordline driver and a pulldown network. The pulldown network includes a first current-carrying terminal electrically coupled to the wordline driver and a second current-carrying terminal electrically coupled to a control signal. The pulldown network also includes a cur...