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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
May. 12, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wei-ping Lu, Saratoga, CA (US);
Tejvansh S. Soni, Fremont, CA (US);
Victor Shadan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Edward Pak, Saratoga, CA (US);
Yuan-ping Chen, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
SandCraft, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 1/9096 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 1/9096 ;
Abstract
A method and a device for maintaining logic state stored in a storage device are described. For one embodiment, the device precharges at least two complimentary nodes in a storage device during the precharge cycle. During the evaluation cycle, the device receives an input data. After receipt of the input data, device stores at least one logic state at a storage node according to the input data. The device includes at least one conducting path to limit one store per each evaluation stage.