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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 15, 1991
Hiroshi Hikichi, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A memory device has memory cells each of which is addressed according to a timing signal, current sense amplifiers each of which determines whether a current flows in the addressed memory cell or not and reads-out the data stored in such memory cell, a circuit which generates a control signal to become active at a timing when the memory cell Is addressed and to become inactive after the read-out of the stored data is completed by the current sense amplifier, and a circuit which cuts-off based on the control signal a current path of a steady-state current flowing in the current sense amplifier. It is possible to substantially reduce power consumption without sacrificing the capability of the read-out the stored data at a high speed.
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