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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2000
Sébastien Zink, Aix-en-Provence, FR;
Bertrand Bertrand, Trets, FR;
David Naura, Aix-en-Provence, FR;
STMicroelectronics S.A., Gentilly, FR;
Abstract
The invention proposes a method of selecting a determined access line of a serial access type integrated circuit memory, a determined access line being selectable among a determined group of access lines (AL,-AL,) of the same nature, for example a group of bit lines or a group of word lines, a line code on p bits being respectively associated to each access line of the group, which consists in pre-activating all the access lines of the group, then ofdeactivating progressively the other access lines as a function of the bits (Ai) of the line code of the access line to select received in series via the serial data input of the memory such that, in the end, only the access line to be selected remains activated.