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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:
Dec. 27, 1988
Filed:
May. 01, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365200 ; 365210 ;
Abstract
A normal decoder and a redundant decoder having address program devices are used for the replacement of bad cells. The number of address program devices is one more than the number of input address bits for selecting a normal row or column. The input signals of the additional program device are complementary to the input signals of one of the other program devices. The program of the program devices have two steps to repair the faulty cells. To increase the reliability of redundancy, a nonvolatile memory element used in the program devices is a bridge connected four cell FLOTOX type nonvolatile memory device.