Claims
- 1. A method of detecting any short from a digit line pair to ground, comprising:initiating an equilibration charge of said digit line pair at a charge rate; allowing any short to discharge said digit line pair toward ground at a discharge rate; and decreasing said charge rate.
- 2. The method in claim 1 further comprising:writing an input data bit to a cell corresponding to said digit line pair; reading an output data bit from said cell; and comparing said input data bit with said output data bit.
- 3. The method in claim 2, wherein:writing is performed before initiating; and reading is performed after decreasing.
- 4. The method in claim 3, wherein writing further comprises writing a logic 0 to said cell.
- 5. The method in claim 4 wherein:initiating further comprises providing electrical communication between a cell plate generator and said digit line pair; and decreasing further comprises: regulating said electrical communication using a control device, and decreasing a driving signal of said control device.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/260,232, filed on Mar. 1, 1999 U.S. Pat. No. 6,028,799; which is a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/855,555, filed May 13, 1997 and issued on Mar. 2, 1999 as U.S. Pat. No. 5,877,993.
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