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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:
Apr. 05, 1988
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Giuliano Imondi, Rieti, IT;
Michael C Smayling, Missouri City, TX (US);
Sossio Vergara, Frattamaggiore, IT;
Sebastiano D'Arrigo, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ; G11C / ; G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365185 ; 365 94 ; 365 53 ; 357 235 ;
Abstract
An array of electrically programmable semiconductor memory cells of a type having electrically conducting odd and even row lines, left and right column and ground lines and field oxide regions separating adjacent left and right cells. The array has a field plate over the field oxide region which extends underneath both odd and even row lines. A driver is coupled to the odd and even row lines in order to drive one of them to substantially ground potential while the other is driven high to a cell selection voltage.