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Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006

Filed:

Apr. 08, 2005
Applicants:

Jinshu Son, Saratoga, CA (US);

Liqi Wang, Mt. View, CA (US);

Minh V. Le, Richmond, CA (US);

Philip S. NG, Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jinshu Son, Saratoga, CA (US);

Liqi Wang, Mt. View, CA (US);

Minh V. Le, Richmond, CA (US);

Philip S. Ng, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A multiplexer circuit in a memory organized into page-portions has a plurality of bit-select multiplexers configured to couple a plurality of page-portion global bitlines to a sense amplifier input. A plurality of column address lines organized into data bytes comprises each page-portion. A plurality of column multiplexers couple the data bytes to the page-portion global bitlines such that each of the address lines comprising the data byte is coupled to one of the page-portion global bitlines.


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