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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:
Jul. 17, 1984
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ronald W Knepper, Lagrangeville, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365190 ; 365154 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a memory array in which each cell consists of a pair of cross coupled bipolar transistors with antisaturation clamps, a load resistor connected to the collector of each of the cross coupled transistors forming storage nodes, and Schottky barrier diode input/output devices connecting each node to a respective bit line. The emitters of the cross coupled transistors are connected to a lower word line while the load resistors are connected to an upper word line. Both the upper and lower word lines are switchable providing high speed as well as highly stable operation with very low power supply voltage requirements.