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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004

Filed:

Dec. 30, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:

Kwan-Weon Kim, Kyoungki-do, KR;

Assignee:

Hynix Semiconductor Inc., Kyoungki-Do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 ;
Abstract

A hole driver for driving a hole in a semiconductor memory device, including a first bank controller for generating a control signal for controlling a X-hole of a first bank in response to a row active signal and a precharge signal for the first bank, a second bank controller for generating a control signal for controlling a X-hole of a second bank in response to a row active signal and a precharge signal for the second bank, a block address enable means for generating a common block address enable signal in response to output signals of the first and the second bank control means and a common block address predecoder for predecoding block address signal for each bank in response to the common block address enable signal.


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