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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1995
Muhammad S Elrabaa, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Mohamed I Elmasry, Waterloo, CA;
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
A SRAM includes an ECL input buffer connected between an address bus and a W-OR predecoder array. The logic output of the W-OR predecoder array is applied to a level translator array and level shifted. The level shifted output of the level translator array is supplied to a plurality of self-resetting word-line decoder and driver (WLDD) circuits. The WLDD circuits supply activation pulses to selected blocks of memory in a memory cell array. Sense amplifiers sense and latch-in the data stored in the activated selected blocks of memory. The design of the W-OR predecoder array, level translator array, WLDD circuits and sense amplifiers is such to reduce the overall power consumption of the SRAM.