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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:
Aug. 24, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 04, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
William R Dachtera, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Leonard C Ritchie, LaGrangeville, NY (US);
Arthur D Tuminaro, LaGrangeville, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36518905 ; 365190 ;
Abstract
A latch and driver circuit is disclosed for use in reading out data from a random access memory cell. The invention, which may be implemented in BICMOS technology, accomplishes high-speed asynchronous latching, level translation and output driving operations. The invention includes a latch and at least one output driver coupled in parallel to a latch driver.