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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. 29, 1983
Filed:
May. 29, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
George L Brantingham, Lubbock, TX (US);
Warren S Graber, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364900 ;
Abstract
An address decode scheme decodes address lines using a minimum number of electrical conductors and minimum area on the chip. Instead of decoding the true and the complementary signals of each address input using a PLA or static gate, the present decode scheme uses two sets of programmable transistors for respectively detecting zeros and ones on the address lines and for generating selected high and low decode signals in conjunction with precharge, discharge, and control transistors. This invention is equally effective in CMOS, NMOS, or PMOS technologies.