Patent ID: 11942142
Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. A method, comprising:
driving, by a first subword driver coupled to a first main word line and a first common transistor, a first even-numbered word line;
driving, by a second subword driver coupled to a second main word line and the first common transistor, a second even-numbered word line;
driving, by a third subword driver coupled to the first main word line and a second common transistor, a first odd-numbered word line; and
driving, by a fourth subword driver coupled to the second main word line and the second common transistor, a second odd-numbered word line, wherein
the first and second subword drivers are in a first subword driver block and the third and fourth subword drivers are in a second subword driver block, and
the first and second subword driver blocks are coupled to a memory cell block and arranged on opposite sides of the memory cell block.