Patent · US Expired

Integrated memory

US6028815A · kind A · utility

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10Claims

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Sabine Schoniger · Hersbruck, DE
Peter Schrogmeier · Hersbruck, DE
Thomas Hein · Hersbruck, DE
Stefan Dietrich · Potsdam, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 1, 1999
Grant date	Feb 22, 2000
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 1, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG11C8/14
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The integrated memory has byte selection lines for selecting all the bit lines of a respective byte, as well as masking signals that are allocated to the respective byte of at least one word. In addition, the memory has a column decoder with outputs which are connected to the word selection lines, each of which, when addressed, causes all the byte selection lines for one of the words to be simultaneously selected if none of the masking signals are active. The masking signals, when activated, prevent the addressed word selection line from selecting the byte selection lines, allocated to a corresponding byte, for a corresponding word.

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