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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1995
John Stephen Muhich, Austin, TX (US);
Robert Paul Masleid, Austin, TX (US);
Larry Bryce Phillips, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for increasing read performance of domino SRAMS. A conventional word-line, which drives two transistors per cell, is replaced with two separate word-lines. The first word-line drives one transistor and the second word-line drives the other transistor. The first word-line is used to write zeros into cells, while the second word line is used to both write ones into cells and to read the contents of the cells. Since the second word-line drives only one transistor during read operations, one-half of the gate load on the writeead word-line is eliminated.