发明名称 |
Semiconductor memory device having a sleep mode |
摘要 |
The present invention provides a computer memory device having a sleep mode characterized by extremely low current consumption and relatively large turn on delay. The invention includes circuitry for disabling current sinking elements internal to said device in response to a sleep signal. In one embodiment, the invention includes circuitry for disconnecting the bit lines and memory cell loads of a nonvolatile static random access memory (nvSRAM) array from a source of power in response to a sleep signal. This embodiment is capable of first transferring the data stored in a volatile portion of the array to a nonvolatile portion of the array before entering sleep mode to prevent loss of the data.
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申请公布号 |
US5563839(A) |
申请公布日期 |
1996.10.08 |
申请号 |
US19950413360 |
申请日期 |
1995.03.30 |
申请人 |
SIMTEK CORPORATION |
发明人 |
HERDT, CHRISTIAN E.;WEINER, ALBERT S. |
分类号 |
G11C5/14;G11C14/00;(IPC1-7):C11C7/00 |
主分类号 |
G11C5/14 |
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