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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 1996
Filed:
May. 22, 1995
Michael Cooperman, Framingham, MA (US);
GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
An asynchronous transmission mode (ATM) memory array capable of storing one ATM packet of data is an n x m array of memory locations, each memory location capable of storing one bit. The array has n columns, where n is the number of bits in an ATM cell of data, and m rows, where m is the number of cells in an ATM packet. The memory array has a plurality of input lines, one for each of said n columns, which together receive n bits simultaneously. It also has n ground lines, one for each of said n columns in said array, each ground line connected to one memory location in each of said n columns in its row; such that each ground line carries the current of only one bit, thereby reducing the noise transients.