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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:
Aug. 11, 1987
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1984
Bruce G Armstrong, Belmont, CA (US);
Fabio Principi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Lexington, MA (US);
Abstract
A memory integrated circuit component comprises: a memory; addressing circuitry for the memory; and, power switch circuit, programmable to either: (a) electrically couple or decouple the addressing circuitry and a power supply selectively in accordance with an enable signal; or, (b) maintain the addressing circuitry electrically coupled to the power supply independent of the enable signal. With such arrangement, an integrated circuit component manufacturer avoids having to produce two separate types of non-volatile integrated circuit memories (i.e., a power switched component and a non-power switched component), but rather such manufacturer is able to fabricate a common non-volatile integrated circuit memory component which may be programmed after fabrication by either the user or the manufacturer as either a non-power switched memory component or a power switched memory component.
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