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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2014
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Bo Jin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Krishnaswamy Ramkumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaojun Yu, Shanghai, CN;
Igor Kouznetsov, San Francisco, CA (US);
Venkatraman Prabhakar, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory structure including a memory array of a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, the plurality of memory cells including a pair of adjacent memory cells in a row of the memory array, wherein the pair of adjacent memory cells include a single, shared source-line through which each of the memory cells in the pair of adjacent memory cells is coupled to a voltage source. Methods of operating a memory including the memory structure are also described.