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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1997
Wilbur C Vogley, Missouri City, TX (US);
Robert L Ward, Maple Wood, MN (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
According to one aspect of the present invention, a selectable integrated circuit assembly (10) is disclosed. The assembly includes a first plurality of terminals (20) for communicating information to and from an integrated circuit device and a second plurality of terminals (22) for receiving an assembly address. The assembly (10) also includes select logic (14) connected to receive the assembly address and operable to generate select signals based upon the assembly address. The select signals have a selected state and a not-selected state. A plurality of switches (18) are connected between the first plurality of terminals (20) and the integrated circuit device. The plurality of switches (18) are connected to receive the select signals. The switches (18) operate, when the select signals are in the selected state, to connect the first plurality of terminals (20) to the integrated circuit device. When the select signals are in the non-selected state, the switches (18) operate to disconnect the first plurality of terminals (20) from the integrated circuit device. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the assembly is a selectable memory module (10).