发明授权
- 专利标题: Erase circuitry for a non-volatile semiconductor memory device
- 专利标题(中): 擦除非易失性半导体存储器件的电路
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申请号: US457859申请日: 1989-12-27
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公开(公告)号: US5095461A公开(公告)日: 1992-03-10
- 发明人: Tadashi Miyakawa , Masamichi Asano
- 申请人: Tadashi Miyakawa , Masamichi Asano
- 申请人地址: JPX Kawasaki
- 专利权人: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- 当前专利权人: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- 当前专利权人地址: JPX Kawasaki
- 优先权: JPX63-333578 19881228
- 主分类号: G11C16/14
- IPC分类号: G11C16/14
摘要:
An memory cell array includes a plurality of electrically erasable and programmable memory cell transistors which are arranged in a matrix form and each of which includes a source region, drain region, floating gate, erasing gate and control gate. The patterns of the control gates and the source regions in the memory cell array are arranged in parallel along the row direction of the memory cell array and the patterns of the erasing gates are arranged to extend in the column direction of the memory cell array. The memory cell transistors in the memory cell array are selected by a row decoder and a column decoder. An erasing circuit functions to erase memory data of each memory cell transistor by applying an erasing potential to the erasing gate of the memory cell transistor. A source potential generation circuit applies a first potential for programming and readout to the source region of a memory cell transistor selected by the row and column decoders when data is programmed into or read out from the selected memory cell transistor and applies a second potential which is higher than the first potential and lower than the erasing potential to the source region of each memory cell transistor when memory data of each memory cell transistor is erased by the erasing circuit. A potential difference between the source region and the erasing gate of the memory cell transistor in the erasing mode is reduced by the second potential output from the source potential generation circuit.