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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2005
Jinshu Son, Saratoga, CA (US);
Liqi Wang, Mt. View, CA (US);
Minh V. Le, Richmond, CA (US);
Philip S. NG, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jinshu Son, Saratoga, CA (US);
Liqi Wang, Mt. View, CA (US);
Minh V. Le, Richmond, CA (US);
Philip S. Ng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A bitline selection network is composed of a plurality of bitlines and a plurality of global bitlines. The bitlines are grouped into bytes with eight bitlines per byte. The bitlines provide access to memory cells for read and write operations. A bitline is connected to a global bitline through a bitline select transistor. Each of the bitline select transistors is activated one at a time by a bitline select controller. Activation of each bitline select transistor provides a connection to a source line, which in turn connects to a sense amplifier and a write data loading logic block. The sense amplifier and the write data loading logic block are used in read and write operations respectively.