Semiconductor memory device having flip-flop circuits
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsMasao Nakano, Tomio Nakano, Yoshihiro Takemae, Katsuhiko Kabashima
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Abstract
A semiconductor memory device having flip-flop circuits, in which first and second bit lines are connected to each of the flip-flop circuits as a sense amplifier, the potential of the second bit line being opposite to the potential of the first bit line, and the first and second data bus lines cross perpendicularly to the first and second bit lines, respectively, the first and second dummy lines are arranged in parallel with the first and second data bus lines respectively, in order to prevent erroneous operation of an I/O amplifier connected to the first and second data bus lines.
Claims3
A semiconductor memory device having flip-flop circuits, comprising:
- a first bit lines arranged on one side of the flip-flop circuits;
- second bit lines arranged on the other side of said flip-flop circuits, the potential of the second bit lines being opposite to the potential of the first bit lines;
- a first data bus line operatively connected to and crossing perpendicularly to said first bit lines;
- a second data bus line operatively connected to and crossing perpendicularly to said second bit lines;
- a first dummy line arranged adjacent to and in parallel with said first data bus line and connected to said second data bus line;
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- a second dummy line arranged adjacent to and in parallel with said second data bus line and connected to said first data bus line,
- whereby noise generated by the coupling between said first and second bit lines and said first and second data bus lines is cancelled.
A semiconductor memory device, comprising:
- a plurality of flip-flop circuits;
- first bit lines connected to each of said plurality of flip-flop circuits;
- second bit lines connected to each of said plurality of flip-flop circuits, wherein the potential of each of said second bit lines is opposite to the potential of each of said first bit lines;
- a first data bus line, operatively connected to each of said first bit lines;
- a second data bus line, operatively connected to each of said second bit lines;
- a first dummy line parallel to said first data bus line and operatively connected to said second data bus line at a first node;
- a second dummy line parallel to said second data bus line and operatively connected to said first data bus line at a second node;
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- an input/output amplifier circuit operatively connected between said first and second nodes,
- whereby said first and second dummy lines substantially reduce the erroneous operation of the input/output amplifier circuit due to noise.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.