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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1996
Luigi Pascucci, Sesto San Giovanni, IT;
Silvia Padoan, Rimini, IT;
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Abstract
In an integrated circuit for programming a memory cell in a non-volatile memory register which is associated with a memory matrix wherein the non-volatile memory register is used to store a redundancy address, the memory cell has at least one programmable non-volatile memory element having a control electrode and a data electrode and is suitable to store one bit of information. A load circuit associated to the memory element reads the information stored therein. The integrated circuit has switching means connected in series between the data electrode and a respective address signal line of an address signal bus which also supplies a decoding circuitry of the memory matrix. The switching means are controlled by a signal which determines the switching means to electrically connect the data electrode of the memory element to the address signal line when the memory cell of the non-volatile memory register is to be programmed, and to electrically disconnect the data electrode of the memory element from the address signal line when the information stored in the memory element is to be read by the load circuit.