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Semiconductor memory

US4780852A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 24, 1986
Grant dateOct 25, 1988
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Expiry dateJun 24, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C11/4096
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A dynamic RAM is arranged such that a common data line in each of the non-selected ones of the divided memory arrays is connected to a pair of common source lines of a sense amplifier corresponding to the memory array concerned, whereby the potential of the common data line is set at a medium level which is substantially equal to the potential of the data lines by utilizing the medium potential of the pair of common source lines and a relatively large parasitic capacity thereof, therby maintaining the data lines at the half-precharge level. The pair of common source lines are shorted to each other during the non-select period of the memory arrays, so that the common source lines have a medium level which is substantially equal to the half-precharge level of the data lines.

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