Texas Instruments Corporation

Hugh P Mcadams

Sudhir Kumar Madan

Sung-Wei Lin

One embodiment relates to a ferroelectric memory device. The ferroelectric memory device includes a segment of contiguous ferroelectric memory cells arranged in rows and columns. A row of ferroelectric memory cells includes a common wordline that allows access to the memory cells of the row and also includes at least two platelines associated with the row. At least one of the at least two platelines is associated with adjacent columns of ferroelectric memory cells within the row. The row of ferroelectric memory cells includes another word line which is not associated with the at least two platelines. Other methods and systems are also disclosed.

Ferroelectric memory devices with partitioned platelines

One aspect of the invention relates to a method for accessing a memory device. One embodiment relates to a method for accessing a memory device. In the method during a read operation, one data value is provided on a local IO line while complimentary local IO line that is associated with the local IO line is inactivated. During a write operation, another data value is provided on the local IO line and a complimentary data value is provided on the complimentary local IO line. Other systems and methods are also disclosed.

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Hugh P Mcadams