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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2007

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2005
Applicants:

Emil Lambrache, Campbell, CA (US);

Duncan Curry, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Richard F. Pang, Milpitas, CA (US);

Inventors:

Emil Lambrache, Campbell, CA (US);

Duncan Curry, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Richard F. Pang, Milpitas, CA (US);

Assignee:

Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

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

A byte select circuit of a memory cell array wherein each column of the memory cell array has two byte select lines. A first byte select line is coupled to the even numbered rows in the column and a second byte select line is coupled to the odd numbered rows in the column. The second byte select line is configured to be driven to a low voltage level when the first byte select line is driven to a high voltage level, thereby minimizing or eliminating any parasitic voltage coupling between adjacent rows of memory cells.


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