Wordline driver circuit having a directly gated pull-down device

Details Wordline driver circuit having a directly gated pull-down device Wordline driver circuit having a directly gated pull-down device

1996-05-10

2000-08-15

Hoang, Huan

Static information storage and retrieval

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Particular decoder or driver circuit

36523008, 36523001, 36518901, 365203, G11C 800

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RE0368210

ABSTRACT:
The invention is a circuit and method for quickly driving non-selected wordlines to correct potentials. The invention drives the non-selected wordlines to low potentials through a driving device directly gated by a primary select predecode signal generated by decode circuitry. The driving device is electrically interposed between the wordline and a reference node. The invention provides low power operation, and provides reliable wordline selection for circuits having supply potentials less than 5 volts.

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