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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:
Mar. 24, 1987
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365222 ; 307475 ;
Abstract
A semiconductor dynamic read/write memory of the multiplexed-address type employs an on-chip refresh counter which is activated by CAS-before-RAS sequence. This counter is made up of stages almost identical to the row address buffers so the same clocks can be used. Either the address input buffers or the refresh counter stages are gated into second-stage row address buffers, and carry feedback from these second stage buffers to the counter stages is used to increment the counter. The access time of the memory for normal read or write is not degraded by the refresh circuitry.