A 45 ns fully static 16K MOS ROM

Describes a fully static high speed 16 384 bit read only memory (ROM), designed and fabricated by using scaled MOS processing and innovative circuit techniques. Specially designed decoder structures and sense amplifiers enable address accessing in less than 45 ns typically. Extensive use of small signal amplification and 0 volt threshold devices reduce active power to a mere 70 mA, and when the power down option is chosen standby currents reduce to only 15 mA typically. Together with quick turnaround (contact mask programmability), and small die size (20.3K mil/SUP 2/), this ROM provides a low power, low cost alternative to bipolar PROMs.