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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:
Sep. 03, 1991
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert A Kertis, Puyallup, WA (US);
Assignee:
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365208 ; 365177 ; 307530 ;
Abstract
A switching circuit for SRAM memory cells is disclosed. The circuit electronically decouples input lines to sense amplifiers from unselected arrays of memory cells. The decoupling results in a large decrease in the amount of parasitic capacitance that the selected inputs would encounter.