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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:
Feb. 27, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2004
Applicants:
Hiroyuki Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Takato Shimoyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Takuya Hirota, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC Electronics Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/10 (2006.01); G11C 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A semiconductor memory device has common terminals shared between a part or all of address terminals for receiving n bits of an address signal and data terminals for outputting a data signal with its bit width of n bits or less and dedicated address terminals for receiving m bits of the address signal, wherein at the time of a read, after the n bits of the address signal have been input, a plurality of data signals within a selected page are consecutively read out through the common terminals using the m bits of the address signal input from the dedicated address terminals.