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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1988
David D Wilmoth, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Tim M Coffman, Sugar Land, TX (US);
John F Schreck, Houston, TX (US);
Jeffrey Kaszubinski, San Jose, CA (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A reference-column circuit for supplying a reference voltage to be used in sensing programming status of read-only-memory cells in a memory array having virtual-ground circuit connections is disclosed. The reference-column circuit includes an adjacent non-programmed memory cell having a common terminal with an identical non-programmed memory cell of prior-art circuitry. The additional memory cell and associated grounding circuit provide a compensating component of reference voltage to the input of a sense amplifier, the compensating component acting to eliminate a source of possible errors in sense amplifier transmission caused by non-programmed adjacent memory cells in the memory array.