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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:
Jul. 07, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shuichi Horihata, Hyogo, JP;
Hiroshi Akamatsu, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365201 ; 36518907 ; 365240 ; 36523003 ; 36518903 ; 371 212 ;
Abstract
A compression reading switch circuit is provided between a data equality/inequality determination circuit and compressed one data input/output terminal in a DRAM. In the I/O compression mode, desired data can be read out among output data DOT from the determination circuit and read data D01-D04 thereby specifying a defective memory cell among four memory cells.