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Dynamic video RAM incorporating single clock random port control

US5142637A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 29, 1988
Grant dateAug 25, 1992
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Expiry dateNov 29, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09G2360/126
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An architecture for a single chip dynamic video random access memory using a single clock to operate the random port to perform refresh, memory address, and to control the internal circuitry for inputting data and addresses and for outputting data as well as modifying information in the memory circuit chip having internal circuitry for performing drawing or replacement rule logical operations on an addressed line of stored video information in the RAM and further having the write masking circuitry for modifying selected portions of the line of stored video information between selected START and STOP bit locations within the like.

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