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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:
Oct. 29, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Sumio Ogawa, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365200 ; 365203 ; 3652257 ; 36523003 ; 36523006 ;
Abstract
In a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory cell clocks each having a mormal memory cell array and first and second redundancy memory cell rows, one first redundancy row selecting circuit is provided for each of the memory cell blocks to access the first redundancy memory cell row upon receipt of a respective memory cell block selection signal, and one second redundancy row selecting circuit is provided for at least two of the memory cell blocks to access the second redundancy memory cell row upon receipt of a respective memory cell block selection signal.