Semiconductor memory device
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsNobuo Sasaki, Yasuo Kobayashi, Takashi Iwai, Motoo Nakano
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Abstract
A semiconductor memory device provides a plurality of bit lines, a plurality of memory cells each of which is connected to a pair of different bit lines, a plurality of common word wires each of which is connected to the memory cells via a transmission gate. A characteristic feature of the present invention is to provide at least one amplifier between two memory cells which are connected to a word line or a bit line so as to prevent an increase of the access time of the memory device.
Claims7
A semiconductor memory device comprising a plurality of bit wires, a plurality of transmission gates connected to said bit wires, a plurality of memory cells each of which is connected to a different pair of said bit wires via a respective pair of said transmission gates, at least one word line each of which is connected to respective ones of said memory cells via the control terminal of the respective ones of said transmission gates, each said word line comprising a distributed resistance that contributes to the decay of a voltage signal applied selectively to said at least one word line, and at least one amplifier which is inserted in said word line between respective adjacent pair of said memory cells to maintain said voltage signal along each respective word line.
A semiconductor memory device comprising a plurality of bit lines, each said bit line comprising a distributed resistance that contributes to the decay of a voltage signal applied to said line, a plurality of transmission gates connected to said bit wires, a plurality of memory cells each of which is connected to a different pair of said bit lines via a respective pair of said transmission gates, at least one word line each connected to respectives ones of said memory cells via the respective control terminal of said transmission gates, and at least one pair of amplifiers respectively inserted in at least one of said pair of bit lines between two of said memory cells to maintain said voltage signal along each respective pair of bit lines.
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