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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2023
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Makoto Kitagawa, Folsom, CA (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
A variety of applications can include a memory device having memory cells that include capacitors as storage units with each capacitor having a plate coupled to a plate line. The memory device can include a plate line driver coupled to specific plate select lines of a set of multiple plate select lines. A plate line driver scheme can include transistors to provide a plate line voltage to a specific plate line and transistors to provide a system reference voltage to the specific plate line, where high state voltages and low state voltages can be applied to specific plate select lines to switch between placing the plate line voltage or the system reference voltage on the specific plate line. Plate select lines and the plate line driver scheme can be arranged to balance the number of plate select lines and device counts for the plate line drivers.