PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16043035
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["710", "038000"]

Abstract:
Integrated circuits may include partial reconfiguration (PR) circuitry for reconfiguring only a portion of a memory array. In some applications, partial reconfiguration may be performed during user mode. During partial reconfiguration, write assist techniques such as varying the power supply voltage may be applied to help increase write margin, but doing so can potentially affect the performance of in-operation pass gates that are being controlled by the memory array during user mode. In one suitable arrangement, ground power supply voltage write assist techniques may be implemented on memory cells that include p-channel access transistors and that are used to control n-channel pass transistors. In another suitable arrangement, positive power supply voltage write assist techniques may be implemented on memory cells that include n-channel access transistors and that are used to control p-channel pass transistors.

Claim (Index 1):
An integrated circuit, comprising:\n a memory element that has an output and that has a power supply terminal at which a power supply voltage is provided; a pass transistor having a gate that is coupled to the output of the memory element; and a write assist circuit that applies a temporary adjustment to the power supply voltage, wherein the pass transistor receives the adjusted power supply voltage from the output of the memory element, and wherein the pass transistor exhibits a drive strength that is unaffected by the temporary adjustment in the power supply voltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94667
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15061440', '14331470', '15471325', '12874152', '12395598']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6876941999308149
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4703052570590893
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6659553056436424
- Mean Citation Score: 229.056774
- Max Citation Score: 253.738
- Similarity Product: 251.4486705428362

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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