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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. 04, 1990
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stuart T Auvinen, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ; G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36518909 ; 365206 ; 365204 ; 365190 ; 3072961 ;
Abstract
A biasing circuit for use with memory cells in intermittent memories includes means coupled between first and second bit-lines for biasing continuously the first and second bit-lines during a read operation so as to compensate for any leakage of charge without consumption any power. The biasing means is formed of an N-channel MOS biasing transistor (M1) and a cross-coupled half-latch circuit formed of a first P-channel MOS transistor (M2) and a second P-channel MOS transistor (M3).