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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:
Oct. 11, 1983
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ramesh C Varshney, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365201 ; 3241 / ;
Abstract
Diagnostic testing of a charge coupled device is facilitated by interconnecting the reference node of the sense amplifier for each data block in the CCD device with a probe contact on the device, thereby eliminating the need for applying a microprobe to the sensitive reference node. Reference voltages under different operating conditions can be evaluated by measuring the device generated reference voltage or by applying variable reference voltages through the probe contact to the reference node.