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Patent Inventor Names
Martin Versen0
Peter Thwaite0
Date of Patent
July 29, 2008
Patent Application Number
11240981
Date Filed
September 29, 2005
Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of a memory device. The method includes initiating a precharge operation. The precharge operation includes driving one or more bitlines to a precharge voltage. The method also includes identifying one or more defective wordlines and, during the precharge operation, driving the identified defective word lines to the precharge voltage.
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