1.5 V high speed low power CMOS current sense amplifier

A 1.5 V high speed low power current sense amplifier for CMOS SRAMs is described. The design is based on the current mode approach and it can be fabricated using a standard CMOS process. The sensing speed is independent of the bit and data line capacitances and no equalisation is needed during the read access. HSPICE simulations have shown that the proposed circuit outperforms the recently reported circuits in terms of speed and average power dissipation.