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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:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert N Rountree, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ; G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
326108 ; 326 81 ; 36523006 ;
Abstract
A combined row decoder and level translator powered by an on-chip high voltage supply results in an efficient layout, area savings and elimination of the global precharge signal resulting in additional area and power savings. In addition, power from the high voltage supply is consumed only by the level translator and wordline driver of the selected decoder resulting in additional power savings.