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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:
Sep. 21, 2004

Filed:

Oct. 10, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:

Ashish Kumar Goel, Uttar Pradesh, IN;

Manish Agarwal, Uttar Pradesh, IN;

Assignee:

STMicroelectronics Pvt. Ltd., Uttar Pradesh, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/10 ; H03K 1/9094 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/10 ; H03K 1/9094 ;
Abstract

An improved multi-stage binary hierarchy decoder characterized in that at least one of the decoding stages subsequent to the first stage is implemented as a Transmission Gate Matrix (TGM) in which a single transmission gate enables an active input from the previous stage to its output, thereby resulting in reduced area requirements when implemented as an integrated circuit.


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