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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2011
Applicants:
Abhijeet R. Tanpure, Austin, TX (US);
Steven C. Sullivan, Austin, TX (US);
William V. Miller, Austin, TX (US);
Jason A. Frerich, Bastrop, TX (US);
Inventors:
Abhijeet R. Tanpure, Austin, TX (US);
Steven C. Sullivan, Austin, TX (US);
William V. Miller, Austin, TX (US);
Jason A. Frerich, Bastrop, TX (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Sense amplifiers in a memory may be activated and deactivated. In one embodiment, a processor may include a memory. The memory may include a number of sense amplifiers. Based on a late arriving address bit of an address used to access data from the memory, a sense amplifier may be activated while another sense amplifier may be deactivated.