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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2010
Applicants:
Jung Pill Kim, San Diego, CA (US);
Tae Hyun Kim, San Diego, CA (US);
Hari M. Rao, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jung Pill Kim, San Diego, CA (US);
Tae Hyun Kim, San Diego, CA (US);
Hari M. Rao, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/02 (2006.01); G11C 7/14 (2006.01); G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G11C 8/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/14 (2013.01); G11C 29/808 (2013.01); G11C 8/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method to select a reference cell is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving an address corresponding to a bit cell within a first bank of a memory. The method also includes accessing a second reference cell of a second bank of the memory in response to a first reference cell in the first bank being indicated as bypassed.