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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 03, 1987
Grigory Kogan, Portland, OR (US);
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A refresh cell of the type utilized for recharging or 'refreshing' data stored in a storage element of a random access memory includes a first field effect transistor (FET) having its drain connected to a supply voltage, its source connected to the drain of a second FET and its gate connected to a first side of a capacitor. The second FET has its drain connected to the source of the first FET, its source connected to a column line of a random access memory and its gate connected to receive a row line signal from the random access memory. The capacitor has its first side connected both to the gate of the first FET and to a first side of a diffused resistive element. The second side of the capacitor is connected to receive a pump signal. The second end of the nonlinear resistor is connected to the source-drain interconnection of the two FETs.