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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:
Aug. 01, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1998
Applicant:
Assignee:
Winbond Electronics Corporation, Hsinchu, Taiwan, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36518902 ; 365205 ;
Abstract
A method and circuit for accessing data bits in a memory array in a multi-data rate operation. In one architecture, a memory device includes a memory array for storing data values, multiple (N) sensing circuits, multiple (K) control lines, and an I/O pad. One sensing circuit couples to each data value being retrieved from the memory device. The I/O pad operatively couples to the sensing circuits. And each control line couples to at least one sensing circuit and has a clock phase unique from remaining control lines.