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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1999
Dmitry G. Netis, Beacon, NY (US);
L. Brian Ji, Fishkill, NY (US);
Toshiaki Kirihata, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A wordline activation delay monitor circuit is disclosed wherein at least one sample wordline and a sample wordline redundancy are located within the same data-storing array region of a memory, and a sample wordline selector is coupled to activate the sample wordline or sample wordline redundancy based on the state of a nonvolatile input. The wordline selector circuit may include one or both of a row decoder circuit or a wordline driver circuit which have substantially the same structure and location as row decoder circuits and wordline driver circuits used to activate wordlines within the data-storing array region.