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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:
Jan. 28, 1986
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ramesh C Varshney, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365200 ; 365201 ;
Abstract
A disabling circuit 71 responsive to a control signal 81 generated by applying to an IC pin 86 a signal outside the range of normal operating voltages of the device 16. The disabling circuit 71 grounds the output of are dundant address decoder such as 31 to disable a spare element 37 of the device 16, allowing identification of repaired elements.