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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
May. 08, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Adam Kablanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Virage Logic Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
Abstract
A system and method is provided for bit line sharing in a memory device. Adjacent memory cells are configured to share a bit line and are accessed with separate word lines as an odd and even plane. Bit line sharing reduces the number of Y-multiplexors and I/O circuitry required by about two-fold, and provides power savings by reducing the number of bit lines pre-charged.