US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Oct. 27 for "Fast, area efficient wordline decoding scheme" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,371, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fast, area efficient wordline decoding scheme" was invented by Andreas Gotterba (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Farhat Perveen (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides an improved pre-decoding scheme that uses pre-decoders with multiple decoders that generate clocked pre-decoded signals, which reduces address set-up time and hold. The ordering of the address bits processed by the multiple decoders is also arranged to advantageously allow sharing logic gates of the multiple decoders, sharing of nodes of the logic gates, or sharing...