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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2002
Filed:
May. 14, 1999
Stephen Earl Seitsinger, Plano, TX (US);
Wayland Bart Holland, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A memory architecture includes an array of memory cells partitioned into a plurality of subarrays Each subarray includes a plurality of memory cells organized in rows and columns, each row associated with a conductive wordline and each column associated with a pair of conductive half-bitlines The first sense amplifier is selectively coupled to selected pair of half-bitlines A second sense amplifier is selectively coupled to the selected pair of half-bitlines A first local I/O line is coupled to first sense amplifier and a second local I/O line is coupled to the second sense amplifier First and second sets of global I/O lines are selectively coupled to the first and second I/O lines