摘要:
A semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of memory banks each having a plurality of memory cell arrays and a plurality of sense amplifiers such that the memory cell arrays and the sense amplifiers are alternately disposed in a first direction, the memory banks being disposed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a plurality of row decoders respectively provided in the first direction for the plurality of memory banks, a column decoder provided in the second direction with respect to the plurality of memory banks, a plurality of first data lines respectively provided in the second direction for the plurality of memory banks, and connected with the plurality of sense amplifiers in accordance with a signal outputted from the column decoder, a plurality of second data lines provided in the second direction, penetrating through the plurality of memory banks, and shared by the plurality of first data lines disposed for the plurality of memory banks, and a plurality of switching elements each having a first end connected to one of the plurality of first data lines and a second end connected to one of the plurality of second data lines, and controlled by a bank activation signal of a memory bank corresponding to the first data line connected to the first ends.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device with a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of element regions formed in the semiconductor is shown. The semiconductor memory device further includes at least one column gate and at least one equalizer in which they are formed as a set in at least one of the element regions.
摘要:
A constant voltage generating device comprises a reference voltage generating circuit, a constant-current circuit unit and a current-to-voltage converting circuit unit. The reference voltage generating circuit generates a desired reference voltage. The constant-current circuit unit comprises a differential error amplifier to which the reference voltage generated by the reference voltage generating circuit is input as a reference potential, a first current controlling MOS transistor having a gate electrode to which an output of the differential amplifier is input, and a standard resistor serially connected to the first current controlling MOS transistor. The constant-current circuit unit generates a reference current to control a differential amplifier so that a constant current can be caused to flow therethrough. The current-to-voltage converting unit comprises a second current controlling MOS transistor constituting a current mirror together with the first current controlling MOS transistor of the constant-current circuit unit, and a current-to-voltage converting MOS transistor serially connected to the second current controlling MOS transistor and constituting a current mirror together with an active element unit current controlling MOS transistor of the differential amplifier.
摘要:
A dynamic semiconductor memory device is made up of a plurality of dynamic memory cells arrayed along a plurality of bit line pairs, and a plurality of dynamic sense amplifiers associated with the plurality of bit line pairs, each sense amplifier having a pair of MOS transistors connected to a corresponding pair of bit lines. In one embodiment, the first and second transistors of one of the sense amplifiers and the first and second transistors of another sense amplifier adjacent thereto are positioned within a region defined by two adjacent pairs of bit lines. Each of the bit line pairs has first and second bit lines extending in a first direction perpendicular to a second direction in which the source and drain regions are formed in the semiconductor substrate so that the transistors of the sense amplifiers are arranged one for every four bit lines in the second direction.
摘要:
A dynamic semiconductor memory device is made up of a plurality of dynamic memory cells arrayed along a plurality of bit line pairs, and a plurality of dynamic sense amplifiers associated with the plurality of bit line pairs, each sense amplifier having a pair of MOS transistors connected to a corresponding pair of bit lines. In one embodiment, the first and second transistors of one of the sense amplifiers and the first and second transistors of another sense amplifier adjacent thereto are positioned within a region defined by two adjacent pairs of bit lines. Each of the bit line pairs has first and second bit lines extending in a first direction perpendicular to a second direction in which the source and drain regions are formed in the semiconductor substrate so that the transistors of the sense amplifiers are arranged one for every four bit lines in the second direction.
摘要:
A MOS memory device includes an array of rows and columns of memory cells, word lines connected to the rows of memory cells, and a plurality of pairs of bits lines connected to the columns. Sense amplifiers and transfer gates are provided for every bit line pair. A column decoder has outputs connected via column-select lines to transfer gates such that each output is connected to two adjacent gates. When activating a certain column, the column decoder potentially activates another column adjacent to the certain column before actually receiving the corresponding column address. This permits information bits stored in four memory cells to be transferred simultaneously to the registers and latched therein. A multiplexer serially reads out the latched information bits. The column preactivation improves the serial accessing speed of the memory device.
摘要:
A dynamic random-access memory has bit-line pairs, word lines intersecting with the bit-line pairs, and memory cells arranged at the intersections of the bit-line pairs and the word lines, and sense amplifiers provided for the bit-line pairs, respectively. One of every two neighboring bit-line pairs is twisted at one portion, thus forming a twisted crossing section. The twisted crossing section is made of the parts of the gate electrodes of the transistors incorporated in the sense amplifier connected to the twisted bit-line pair. The bit-line pairs is twisted at a portion substantially middle with respect to the direction in which it extends, and the sensr amplifier associated with this bit-line pair is located at the twisted portion thereof.
摘要:
A MOS type random access memory disclosed has a plurality of pairs of sequentially aligned folded type bit lines each of which has a first bit line and a second bit line. Memory cells are arranged at points of intersection between a memory cell word line and the first bit lines. Dummy cells are arranged at points of intersection of a dummy cell word line and the second bit lines. Sense amplifier circuits are connected to the bit line pairs, respectively. In a data read mode of the memory, when a bit data is read from a certain memory cell which is connected to a first word line selected and a first bit line of a selected bit line pair, a second bit line onto which a data voltage is read from a dummy cell of the selected bit line pair is forcedly fixed to a precharge voltage produced by a precharge voltage generator in a presented time interval after the first word line is selected and before a certain sense amplifier circuit connected to the selected bit line pair gets activated, whereby interference noise may be eliminated which is introduced onto the selected bit line pair from a bit line pair adjacent to the selected bit line pair.
摘要:
According to one embodiment, a memory includes a memory cell array with banks, each bank including rows, a first word lines provided in corresponding to the rows, an address latch circuit which latches a first row address signal, a row decoder which activates one of the first word lines, and a control circuit which is configured to execute a first operation which activates one of the banks based on a bank address signal when a first command is loaded, and a second operation which latches the first row address signal in the address latch circuit, and execute a third operation which activates one of the first word lines by the row decoder based on a second row address signal and the first row address signal latched in the address latch circuit when a second command is loaded after the first command.
摘要:
A memory according to an embodiment includes bit lines, word lines, source lines, magnetic tunnel junction elements and transistors that are serially connected between the bit lines and the source lines, respectively, and a sense amplifier that detects data stored in the magnetic tunnel junction elements. The semiconductor storage device includes multiplexers between the bit lines and the sense amplifier in order to select one of the bit lines to be connected to the sense amplifier, and write amplifiers that are located corresponding to memory cell blocks each of which includes memory cells each including the magnetic tunnel junction element and the transistor and are connected to the bit lines or connected via the multiplexers to the bit lines. To write data, the sense amplifier applies a write voltage to the bit lines and then the write amplifiers hold the write voltage.