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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:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
William F Kraus, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Lark E Lehman, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Assignee:
Ramtron International Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365145 ; 365149 ;
Abstract
A plate line segmentation scheme for a 1T/1C ferroelectric memory architecture includes an array of 1T/1C ferroelectric memory cells, word lines corresponding to each row of 1T/1C ferroelectric memory cells, and plate lines corresponding to each row of 1T/1C ferroelectric memory cells, wherein each plate line is divided into two or more equal plate line segments, only one of which is driven when a corresponding word line is selected.