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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2003
Johann Pfeiffer, Ottobrunn, DE;
Helmut Fischer, Oberhaching, DE;
Johann Pfeiffer, Ottobrunn, DE;
Helmut Fischer, Oberhaching, DE;
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A RAM memory circuit has at least one memory bank with a multiplicity of memory cells arranged like a matrix in rows and columns and is subdivided into q≧2 areas, each of which comprises p≧1 segments each comprising a plurality of columns. Each segment is assigned a bundle of master data lines, which branches from an area bus assigned to the relevant area and, for its part, branches via a switching network to the memory cells of the relevant segment. The area buses can be connected cyclically to a common data port. In order to allow a read operation the beginning of which overlaps the end of a preceding write operation, each master data line bundle has coupled to it a data latch for holding the data respectively appearing there, and an isolating switch is in each case provided between each master data line bundle and the assigned area bus.