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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2003
Applicant:
Jun Ohtani, Hyogo, JP;
Inventor:
Jun Ohtani, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
Renesas Technology Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C008/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A semiconductor memory device according to the present invention includes: a data line switching circuit including a plurality of switches which selectively connect one of a plurality of normal data lines and spare data lines included in a memory cell array to one of a plurality of global data lines for transmitting input/output data to the memory cell array; and a switching control circuit including a shift decoder having decode circuits for decoding a defective address stored in a program circuit as many as the switches.