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Patent No.:
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.