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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 12, 1995
Thomas von der Ropp, Germering, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
An integrated semiconductor memory circuit includes devices through which second electrodes of memory capacitors of dummy memory cells are to be acted upon with a precharging potential. The precharging potential has a value being 5 to 35% greater than a value of a bit line potential to which bit lines of the semiconductor memory circuit are to be precharged. A method for operating an integrated semiconductor memory circuit includes precharging the bit lines to the bit line potential, prior to a readout of data stored in memory cells, and applying the precharging potential to the second electrodes of the memory capacitors of the dummy memory cells, in the precharging of the bit lines.