US 5,691,944 A · Non-volatile semiconductor memory device

Abstract

In a non-volatile semiconductor memory device having a writing power source voltage which is supplied thereto exceeding a withstand voltage of a field effect transistor, the object of the present invention is to reduce the number of kinds of field effect transistors constituting the non-volatile semiconductor memory device thereby reducing manufacturing cost. In a non-volatile semiconductor memory device which has a writing circuit 125 for controlling a connection of a writing load to a bit line designated by an output of a column decoder 117 in accordance with a signal of a writing data line 114, and a bias circuit 118 for outputting a bias voltage to set a cell writing voltage of a memory cell array by reducing the writing power source voltage. The semiconductor memory device has an N-type transistor 102 which receives an output of the bias circuit 118 in its gate electrode and outputs a cell writing voltage to a cell writing voltage line 105, and the wiring load constituted of a P-type transistor 104 of a complementary type to that of the N-type transistor 102, the P-type transistor being connected between a cell writing voltage line 105 and a bit line of a memory cell array.

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Dependent claims

A non-volatile semiconductor memory device comprising:

a memory cell array which consists of a plurality of transistors each of which is capable of being written electrically with data as a memory cell;
a writing circuit which controls a connection of a writing load to a bit line in accordance with a combination of a writing data input signal and a column designation signal, said bit line being designated by outputs from a column decoder which decodes address signals to output said column designation signal for the bit line of said memory cell array;
and
a bias circuit which outputs a bias voltage to set a cell writing voltage of said memory cell array by reducing a writing power source voltage;
said non-volatile semiconductor memory device further comprising:
a first field effect transistor which receives the output bias voltage of said bias circuit in its gate electrode, and outputs said cell writing voltage to a cell writing voltage line connected to its source electrode;
and
a second field effect transistor, of a conductivity type complementary to that of said first field effect transistor, for connecting said writing load, said second field effect transistor being arranged between said cell writing voltage line and the bit line of said memory cell array.

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A data writing method of a non-volatile semiconductor memory device to a memory cell array which consists of a plurality of transistors each of which is capable of being electrically written with data as a memory cell comprising the steps of:

outputting a writing voltage;
outputting a first bias voltage lower than a writing power source voltage;
selecting a bit line to receive said writing voltage by providing a writing data input signal and a column designation signal from a column decoder, by applying said column designation signal from the column decoder to a gate electrode of a bit line selection P type field effect transistor, a drain electrode of which is connected to the bit line;
and
connecting the selected bit line to said writing voltage when a selection of said bit line is set, by connecting a source electrode of said bit line selection P-type field effect transistor to a drain electrode of a writing P-type field effect transistor, a gate electrode of said writing P-type field effect transistor being applied with a second bias voltage, and a source electrode of said writing P-type field effect transistor being applied with the writing voltage when said writing data input signal is applied.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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