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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009
Filed:
May. 31, 2006
Applicants:
Karl Lin Wang, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hemangi Umakant Gajjewar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Karl Lin Wang, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hemangi Umakant Gajjewar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
ARM Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A memory cell includes polysilicon gatesrunning in a first direction. A sequence of layers metal lines includes a layer of bit linesrunning in a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction followed by data linesrunning in that second direction and then word linesrunning in the first direction. The data linesare precharged to a value which is held whilst the bit linesare being used to sense data values stored within a memory cell.