摘要:
A method to program bitcells (11, ..., mn) of a ROM array (10) uses different programming cells (0a, ..., 0h, 1a, ..., 1d) for programming the bitcells (11, ..., mn) with a first or second data item. A first bitcell (11) is programmed by means of a selected programming cell, wherein the programming cell is selected in dependence on operating the memory array (10) as a flipped or a non-flipped memory in multi-bank instance. All other bitcells (12, 13) located in the same column (C1) as the first bitcell (11) and subsequent rows (R2, R3) are programmed by selected programming cells, wherein the selection of the programming cells is dependent on operating the memory array (10) as a flipped or a non-flipped memory in multi-bank instance and the programming state of the programming cells used for the previously programmed bitcells in the same column (C1).
摘要:
Electrically erasable flash memory and method. The memory has a data storage element and a voltage sensing circuit. The data storage element is configured to store data bits, each of the data bits having a data state. The voltage sensing circuit is selectively coupled to individual ones of data bits and is configured to bias the data bits with at least one of a bias current and a bias resistance and to read the data state of the individual ones of the plurality of data bits.
摘要:
L'invention concerne une matrice de cellules d'une mémoire à lecture seule constituées chacune d'un transistor dont une première région (d) de drain ou de source est connectée à une ligne de bit (BL) reliant plusieurs transistors dans une première direction, les grilles (g) des différents transistors étant connectées à des lignes de mot (WL) dans une deuxième direction perpendiculaire à la première, la matrice comportant une répétition d'un motif élémentaire s'étendant sur trois lignes dans chaque direction et comportant neuf transistors disposés de façon que chacune des lignes du motif élémentaire comporte deux cellules, deux transistors voisins de chaque motif dans la première direction partageant une même deuxième région (s) reliée à une ligne de masse et étant reliés à des lignes de bit différentes d'une ligne de mot à l'autre.
摘要:
The present invention prevents a reading operation margin from being decreased due to a current injected into a selected bit line after passing through an unselected bit line in a memory cell array configuration using virtual ground lines. A memory cell array (1) is constituted by being divided into at least subarrays (2) of a plurality of columns and memory cell columns at the both ends of the subarrays (2) are constituted so that second electrodes are not connected each other but they are separated from each other between two memory cells adjacent to each other in the row direction at the both sides of boundaries between the subarrays (2) and respectively connected to an independent bit line or virtual ground line, and one of word lines, one of bit lines, and one of virtual ground lines are selected and one memory cell from which data will be read is selected.
摘要:
A current source (55) of a semiconductor read only memory device supplies current through a digit line (DL0-DLk) to a memory cell so as to seen whether the memory cell is implemented by an enhancement type transistor or a depletion type transistor, and a potential transferring circuit (57) either discharges a precharge level from an input line (SIL) connected to a sense amplifier (52) or maintains the precharge level depending upon the potential level at the drain node of the memory cell so that a small amount of parasitic capacitance of the input line allows the sense amplifier to rapidly determine the operation mode of the memory cell.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device has a memory cell array that outputs cell current to data sensing amplifiers and reference current to reference amplifiers. The reference amplifiers convert the reference current to a reference voltage. The data sensing amplifiers use the reference voltage to convert the cell current to a data voltage signal. According to a first aspect of the invention, reference current is supplied to a reference amplifier from two parallel data paths, each having approximately equal numbers of transistors of two types, one type of which is always switched on, the other type switching on and off. According to a second aspect of the invention, each data sensing amplifier, and the reference amplifier to which it is connected, receive currents from parts of the memory cell array having identical layouts.