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Patent No.:

US 6049495 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2000

Filed:

Feb. 03, 1999

Auto-programmable current limiter to control current leakage due to

Applicant:
Inventors:

Louis L Hsu, Fishkill, NY (US);

Giuseppe La Rosa, Fishkill, NY (US);

Jack A Mandelman, Stormville, NY (US);

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorneys:

McGinn & Gibb, P.C.

Neff, Esq.; Daryl K.

Primary Examiner:

Trong Phan

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ; G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365203 ; 36518909 ; 365201 ;
Abstract

A method and structure for disconnecting shorted bitlines from a dynamic random access memory circuit includes supplying a precharge voltage to equalization lines in the integrated circuit, supplying a negative voltage to wordlines in the integrated circuit, activating equalization devices connected to the bitlines and the equalization lines and maintaining the precharge voltage and the negative voltage until a short between one of the bitlines and one of the wordlines causes a corresponding equalization device of the equalization devices to have a permanently elevated threshold voltage.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Hsu, Louis. (2000). Auto-programmable current limiter to control current leakage due to (U.S. Patent No. 6049495). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6049495

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