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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2005
Applicants:
Christophe Frey, Austin, TX (US);
David Turgis, La Touvet, FR;
Jean-christophe Lafont, Meylan, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics S.A., Montrouge, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A memory cell (), includes a flip-flop () that has additional read/write terminals; a 1-bit write line (wb); a first transistor (T) switching between the 1-bit write line and the terminal, its gate being connected to a word selection line (W); a 0-bit write line (wb); a second transistor (T) switching between the 0-bit write line and the terminal, its gate being connected to a word selection line (W); a bit read line (b); and read transistors (T, T), with one of their gates being connected to a read/write terminal and the other being connected to a word selection line.