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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:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 23, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jeff S Brown, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365203 ; 365205 ;
Abstract
A circuit in a memory device and a method for precharging at least one bit line in the memory device. The circuit includes a primary precharger and a secondary precharger in communication with the bit line. The secondary precharger gradually precharges the bit line before the primary precharger precharges the bit line between memory operations.