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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2008
Applicant:
Jon Allan Faue, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Inventor:
Jon Allan Faue, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Assignee:
ProMOS Technologies PTE.Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A multi-bank block architecture for integrated circuit memory devices which effectively reduces the total length of the datapath for a given input/output (I/O) from the memory cells in the memory array to the actual device I/O pad. In accordance with the present, a memory block in a memory device is effectively divided into two or more banks, and between these banks an additional non-shared sense amplifier band is added as a sense amplifier cannot be shared across a bank boundary. Within this multi-bank block, separate data paths are provided for the banks with the column (Y-Select) lines being common.