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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 1976
Filed:
Jun. 09, 1975
Paul Kessler Weimer, Princeton, NJ (US);
RCA Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Charge transfer memories such as those of the bucket-brigade or of the charge-coupled device (CCD) type include, at each location, a store which is separate from the normal means for charge storage. Charge is transferred from the normal means of storage to the separate store at each location during a first period of time and may be sensed during later intervals of time to provide multiple 'copies' of the stored information. In one form of such a memory especially suitable for the storage of digital data, each separate store includes an internal loop for refreshing the charge. In other forms of such memories, means are provided for reducing the effects of variation in threshold voltage from location-to-location of the transistors associated with the separate stores. These are especially suitable for analog storage.