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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
May. 22, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:
William K. Waller, Garland, TX (US);
Huy T. Vo, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
Abstract
A redundancy architecture for repairing a DRAM includes fuse banks for storing the row addresses of defective rows in sub-arrays of the DRAM. Row decoders activate a redundant row in one of the sub-arrays in response to receiving a row address matching one of the stored defective row addresses and, at the same time, disable a redundant row in the other of the sub-arrays that is arranged in an order complementary to that of the activated redundant row.