摘要:
An integrated circuit memory having a plurality of row lines; a plurality of select lines; a plurality of output lines; a plurality of memory cells; each pair of memory cells having common outputs coupled to a select one of the plurality of output lines and common address inputs coupled to a select one of the plurality of row lines, wherein ambiguity of which memory cell of the pair of memory cells to be selected, being coupled to a select one of the plurality of row lines and a select one of the plurality of output lines, is determined by two selected ones of the plurality of select lines coupled thereto. Also provided is a first decoder, responsive to an input address, for enabling a select one of the plurality of row lines, and a second decoder, responsive to the row lines and to the input address, for enabling a select one of the select lines which corresponds to pairs of memory cells with an enabled row line.
摘要:
A memory cell of the general type employing one pair of IGFETs defining data nodes and cross-coupled in a latch circuit configuration for storing data, and another pair of IGFETs serving as transmission gates to selectively couple data into or out of the cell. A circuit technique provides fast writing speed by avoiding the use of load resistors in either the charge or discharge paths for the data nodes and yet ensures that the data nodes are pulled either fully to logic high or fully to logic low, as the case may be, without limitation by threshold voltage offset between the gate and source terminals of the IGFETs serving as transmission gates. High impedance leakage current discharge resistances are included, and serve only the function of discharging leakage at the nodes to maintain memory. In the disposed circuit configurations, the latch IGFETs are of opposite channel conductivity type compared to the gating IGFETs. Various alternative forms of suitable high impedance leakage current resistances are disclosed, including a resistive sea above the cell and leakage paths included within the gating IGFETs. The high impedance leakage current discharge resistances may be eliminated to provide a dynamic memory cell.
摘要:
A five-transistor CMOS static latch cell useful in static flip-flop applications comprises, in one embodiment, an inverting latch cell having a data input node, a data storage node, a complementary data output node, a clock input node for selectively enabling or not enabling the cell, and a pair of voltage supply nodes. An essentially standard CMOS inverter has an output connected to the complementary data output node. The inverter includes a complementary pair of IGFETs i.e., an N-channel IGFET and a P-channel IGFET. The channel of the N-channel inverter IGFET selectively electrically connects the complementary data output node to ground. The channel of the P-channel inverter IGFET selectively electrically connects the complementary data output node to the voltage supply node. The inverter transistor gate electrodes are connected to the data storage node. A cross-coupled switching element comprising a second P-channel IGFET has its gate connected to the complementary data output node and is arranged to selectively connect the data storage node to the voltage supply node. A third P-channel IGFET has its channel arranged to selectively connect the data storage node to the voltage supply node when the cell is disabled. A second N-channel IGFET is arranged to selectively connect the data storage node to the data input node. A high impedance leakage current discharge path electrically connects the data storage node to the one voltage supply node, and discharges any leakage current on the data storage node. The high impedance leakage current discharge path may take a variety of forms, and need not comprise a discrete resistor.
摘要:
A multibit digital adder is shown wherein a pair of carry generating circuitries is disposed between single adders for each bit in the digital numbers to be added, each one of such carry generating circuitries being responsive to a different carry-in signal and to the level of the bits applied to the associated single bit adder to produce the proper carry-in signal to the following single bit adder.
摘要:
A non-volatile integrated circuit memory is provided having an array of memory elements selectively programmable to store complimentary binary data, each one of such memory elements being formed in a different region of the integrated circuit and having an address terminal, an output terminal, a ground terminal, and a power supply terminal. Those memory cells programmed into a first logical state are provided with transistor action between the output terminal and the power supply terminal and are inhibited from having transistor action between the output terminal and the ground terminal. Conversely, those memory cells programmed to store the complementary logic state are inhibited from having transistor action between the output terminal and the power supply terminal and are provided with transistor action between the ground terminal and the output terminal. In either programmed state, the transistor action is controlled by signals fed to the address terminal of the cells. With such arrangement, since transistor action is prevented between the power supply terminal and the ground terminal of each cell, an electrical open-circuit is always present to the power supply with the result that a precharge cycle is not required during memory addressing to reduce power. The elimination of such pre-charge cycle thereby eliminates the time delays inherent with the precharge cycle circuitry to thereby increase the operating speed of the memory and, further, the elimination of the circuitry increases the storage capacity of the ROM by making more chip area available for memory cells.
摘要:
A high speed full adder circuit is shown to include logic circuitry responsive to the levels of the two digital signals to be added for: (a) immediately producing an appropriate carry signal when the levels of the digital signals are the same; and (b) inverting the carry signal into such adder when the levels of the digital signals differ.
摘要:
Apparatus, comprising a series of staggered metal contacts, is used to join adjacent ends of adjacent sets of substantially parallel semiconductor lines. The lines of one set can have a conductivity type opposite that of the lines of the adjacent set. Also, one of the sets may comprise epitaxial silicon, grown on an insulating substrate such as sapphire, while the other set comprises polycrystalline silicon.
摘要:
A D-type latch circuit employing only six insulated-gate field-effect transistors and four diodes includes three CMOS inverters, the first and third of which are modified inverters capable of being selectively enabled or disabled depending upon the sense of the supply voltage polarity applied thereto. To accomplish this, each of the first and third inverters includes a pair of isolation diodes. Voltage supply nodes of the second inverter are connected to latch voltage supply nodes for continuously enabling the second inverter. However, the voltage supply nodes of the first and second inverters are connected to a pair of complementary clock input nodes in a manner such that, when the clock input nodes have applied thereto one set of complementary logic voltage levels for enabling the latch, the first inverter is enabled and the third inverter is disabled, and when the clock input nodes have applied thereto a complementary set of logic voltage levels for not enabling the latch, the first inverter is disabled and the third inverter is enabled. In the overall configuration, the input node of the first inverter is connected to the data input node of the overall latch, and the output node of the first inverter is connected to the complementary data output node (Q) of the overall latch, and also to the input node of the second inverter. The output node of the second inverter is connected to the latch data output node (Q) of the overall latch. Finally, the third inverter is cross-coupled with the second inverter in a latching configuration. In particular, the input of the third inverter is connected to the output of the second inverter, and the input of the second inverter is connected to the output of the third inverter.
摘要:
An R/S latch circuit employing four IGFETs, one pair of P-channel IGFETs, and another pair of N-channel IGFETs. The P-channel IGFETs have channels respectively connecting Q and Q data output nodes to +V.sub.DD, and gates cross-connected to the opposite data output nodes. The N-channel IGFETs have channels respectively connecting the Q and Q data output nodes to ground, and have gates which respectively comprise the Reset (R) and Set (S) data inputs. A pair of high impedance leakage current paths may also be provided respectively electrically connecting the Q and Q data output nodes to ground. Particular integrated circuit R/S latch structures are disclosed.
摘要:
Apparatus for decoding multiple input lines includes a line selector and a line deselector. The line selector is capable of receiving a plurality of closely spaced input lines and simultaneously decoding the input lines into at least one output line having an effective pitch which can be arbitrarily greater than the pitch of the input lines. An array of MOS transistors is formed in the line selector to decode the input lines while increasing the output pitch relative to the input pitch. Similarly, the line deselector receives the same plurality of input lines and insures that deselected lines are connected to an appropriate voltage potential in order to prevent them from "floating".