High density nonvolatile memory cell unit array
AssigneeSony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
InventorsHaruhiko Terada, Makoto Kitagawa
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Abstract
In a memory cell unit array, memory cell units each constituted of first wires, second wires, and a nonvolatile memory cell are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix form in a first direction and a second direction. Each of the memory cell units includes a control circuit below it. The control circuit is constituted of a first control circuit and a second control circuit. The second wires are connected to the second control circuit. Some of the first wires that constitute the memory cell unit are connected to the first control circuit that constitutes this memory cell unit. Others of the first wires are connected to the first control circuit that constitutes an adjacent memory cell unit adjacent thereto in the first direction.
Claims20
A memory cell unit array, comprising
- memory cell units arranged in a two-dimensional matrix form in a first direction and a second direction, the memory cell units being each constituted of
- a plurality of first wires extending in the first direction,
- a plurality of second wires that are disposed separately from the first wires in upper and lower directions and extend in the second direction unlike the first wires, and
- a nonvolatile memory cell that is disposed in a region in which the first wires and the second wires overlap one another and connected to the first wires and the second wires, wherein
- each of the memory cell units includes, below the memory cell unit, a control circuit that controls an operation of the memory cell unit,
- the control circuit is constituted of
- a first control circuit that controls an operation of the nonvolatile memory cell that constitutes the memory cell unit via the first wires, and
- a second control circuit that controls an operation of the nonvolatile memory cell that constitutes the memory cell unit via the second wires,
- the second wires that constitute the memory cell unit are connected to the second control circuit that constitutes the memory cell unit,
- some of the first wires that constitute the memory cell unit are connected to the first control circuit that constitutes the memory cell unit, and
- others of the first wires that constitute the memory cell unit are connected to a first control circuit that constitutes an adjacent memory cell unit adjacent thereto in the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.