Electrical transmission or interconnection systems – Nonlinear reactor systems – Parametrons
Patent
1992-11-23
1994-04-05
Hudspeth, David R.
Electrical transmission or interconnection systems
Nonlinear reactor systems
Parametrons
307290, 307441, 307443, 365200, 365205, H03K 19003
Patent
active
053008405
ABSTRACT:
An integrated circuit memory comprising redundancy circuits with batteries of fuses to store the addresses of defective memory elements to be replaced by redundancy elements. The circuit used to read the state of the fuse comprises a current-voltage converter constituted by an inverter and a transistor. To prevent uncertainty over the state of the fuse when the power is turned on, two additional inverters in series are used between the outputs of the first inverter and the gate of a feedback transistor. These inverters are highly asymmetrical in opposite directions. This avoids the need for a power-on-reset circuit.
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Groover Robert
Hudspeth David R.
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.A.
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