Patent 7483334 was granted and assigned to Micron Technology on January, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
System and method for latching input signals from multiplexed signal lines. An input signal path includes a command path and an address path. In one embodiment, a command latch of the command path latches commands from the input signals and the address path includes a plurality of address latches that latch addresses from the input signals in an interleaved manner. In another embodiment, the command path includes a plurality of command latches that latch commands from the input signals in an interleaved manner and the address path includes a plurality of address latches that latch addresses from the input signals in an interleaved manner.