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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2002
Pavel Poplevine, Foster City, CA (US);
Annie-li-keow Lum, Milpitas, CA (US);
Hengyang Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew J. Franklin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Pavel Poplevine, Foster City, CA (US);
Annie-Li-Keow Lum, Milpitas, CA (US);
Hengyang Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew J. Franklin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In a SRAM structure, power consumption is reduced by providing a structure which allows specific memory cells to be selected using word lines and column select lines, and reducing the load on the column address lines by dividing the load into sectors. The dividing into sectors is achieved by making use of sector select lines for selecting two or more rows of cells, and logically ANDing the sector select lines with the column select lines.