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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
In Chul Jung, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd., Ichon-shi, KR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a sensing current reduction device for a semiconductor memory device, and a method therefor, which can considerably reduce a sensing current occupying a great part of an operating current and consume less power, by controlling a bit line sense amplifier to be operated after receiving a column address, and control a long-time operation not to be carried out after applying the row address. Accordingly, a time from latching a row address signal to receiving a column address signal is sharply decreased. As a result, an access time is reduced, thus achieving the high speed operation.