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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1976
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1974
Applicant:
Inventor:
George Sonoda, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ; H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
307205 ; 307215 ; 307270 ; 307D / ; 307D / ;
Abstract
The specification describes a circuit for transmitting a drive pulse from a source of pulses to a capacitive load, such as a word line or a bit line in a monolithic memory. A discharge path is provided for discharging the capacitive load, thereby preventing false selection of a word or bit line and improving the timing performance of the monolithic memory. The discharge path is shown in the form of a field effect transistor having a source to drain path from the output node to a second node dischargeable to ground potential and is gated by the source of pulses.