Patent · US Expired

Segmented word line architecture for dividing up a word line into a plurality of banks for cell arrays having long bit lines

US6310793A · kind A · utility

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4Claims

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Assignee

Infineon Technologies AG · DE

Inventors

Martin Brox · Munich, DE
Karl-Peter Pfefferl · Hohenkirchen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 18, 2000
Grant date	Oct 30, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 18, 2020

Classification

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

Abstract

The segmented word line architecture has two master word lines, to which sub-word lines are alternately allocated. Two memory banks can thus be alternately assigned to the sub-word lines.

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