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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alessandro Manstretta, Broni, IT;
Andrea Pierin, Graffignana, IT;
Guido Torelli, Alessio con Vialone, IT;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36518523 ; 36518911 ; 36523006 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a driving circuit for row decoding which is also useful in non-volatile memory devices of the multi-level Flash type and the multi-level EPROM type and allows the overall capacitive loads as seen from the program voltage generator and the read/verify voltage generator, to be drastically reduced without involving segmentation of the decoding circuit.