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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1985
Jeffrey K Kaszubinski, Houston, TX (US);
David D Wilmoth, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Timmie M Coffman, Sugar Land, TX (US);
John F Schreck, Houston, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An array of transistor memory cells of a type in which each cell has a transistor, a ground select switch and a sense amplifier coupling switch. A bias voltage line on which there is established a voltage V.sub.BIAS is coupled to each bit line by a bit line transistor whose gate during a read mode is at least about a voltage V.sub.T above V.sub.BIAS. Similarly, the source of each transistor is coupled to the bias voltage line by a source line transistor whose gate is more than about a voltage V.sub.T about V.sub.BIAS. The foregoing arrangement ensures that for every non-selected transistor that transistor's source voltage will be equal to its drain voltage so that all non-selected transistors will be substantially non-conducting.