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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. 02, 1982
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Roger V Rufford, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Fairchild Camera and Instr. Corp., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ; G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365230 ; 365189 ; 365204 ; 365227 ; 365242 ;
Abstract
An adaptive word line pull-down circuit steers a pull-down current only to the word being pulled down and only for the time when that word is being pulled down. The time that it takes for the bottom word line to fall controls how long the pull-down current is steered to the falling word.