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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:
May. 04, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 26, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Karl L Wang, Austin, TX (US);
Jin-Uk 'Luke' Shin, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36518521 ; 36518525 ; 365203 ; 365205 ;
Abstract
A nonvolatile memory architecture (10) contains a plurality of memory arrays (12) formed by a plurality of floating gate memory cells and supports a 1X and 2X architecture. The nonvolatile memory design contains high voltage row decoders (16), low voltage row decoders (18), data multiplexors (24) and low voltage control circuitry (22). The nonvolatile memory architecture (10) features a pipelined scheme with a 100 MHz operation. Data multiplexers (24) and sense amplifier circuitry (26) with a master/slave portion increase the data access rate.