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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2000
Mark W. Randolph, San Jose, CA (US);
Shane Charles Hollmer, San Jose, CA (US);
Pau-Ling Chen, Saratoga, CA (US);
Richard M. Fastow, Cupertino, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An array of memory cells that includes a plurality of memory cells interconnected via a grid of wordlines and bitlines, wherein each of the bitlines is buried. The array further includes a plurality of contacts, wherein each of the plurality of contacts is formed every N wordlines, N=1, 2, 3, . . . , and wherein each of the plurality of contacts overlies a gate of a different one of the plurality of memory cells. A strap connects one of the buried bitlines to a gate that underlies one of the plurality of contacts and wherein a column of the bitlines has a first discontinuous and a second discontinuous bitline that are separated from one another by a distance &Dgr;.
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