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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
May. 03, 2002
Hugo Cheung, Tucson, AZ (US);
Shang-Yuan Chuang, Tucson, AZ (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A low power Read Only Memory (ROM) bank accessing system with efficient bust muxing is provided. The memory access system includes separate pre-charge and pre-discharge circuits for each bit lines in the ROM bank. In a ROM bank read operation, the pre-discharge circuits and pre-charge circuits are activated and deactivated in accordance with the address of the targeted ROM bank. In an exemplary embodiment, only the pre-charge lines corresponding to the bit-line of the targeted ROM bank are pre-charged prior to the ROM read operation. Similarly, only the pre-discharge circuit corresponding to the bit lines of the targeted ROM bank is deactivated during the ROM read operation, permitting the remaining bit lines from storing residual charge.
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