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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:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Moon-hae Son, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36523003 ; 36523006 ; 36523008 ;
Abstract
There is provided a semiconductor memory device having a multibank in which a single large memory cell is divided into a plurality of banks without increasing power consumption and chip size. In the semiconductor memory device, a memory cell array is divided into a plurality of banks arranged alternately, and each bank includes a plurality of unit memory cell arrays. In addition, column selection lines of each bank are connected to alternate output ports of a column decoder, and the column decoder enables the column selection lines of a bank selected from the plurality of banks in response to address decoding signals and bank selection signals.