SRAM cell
AssigneeHyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.
InventorJae-Kap Kim
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a static random access memory cell having a reduced cell size and method of manufacturing the same. According to the invention, the SRAM cell includes: a word line and a bit line; an access device connected to the word and bit lines, wherein in case that the word line is selected, the access device outputs data inputted from the bit line; a pull-up device connected to the access device as well as to a predetermined power voltage, wherein the pull-up device operates in pull-up manner according to the data inputted from the access device; and a pull-down device connected to the access device and the pull-up device as well as to a ground, wherein the pull-down device operates in pull-down manner according to the data inputted from the access devices.
Claims4
A memory cell including an access transistor, a pull-up transistor and a pull-down transistor, comprising:
- a semiconductor substrate, wherein a first and a second conductivity type wells are formed, a first active region is defined in the well of the first conductivity type and a second active region is defined in the well of the second conductivity type, by a field oxide layer;
- a gate insulating layer formed on the first and second active regions;
- first and second gates of the access transistor and the pull-up transistor, formed on the first active region, and a third gate of the pull-down transistor formed on the second active region;
- impurity diffusion regions of the second conductivity type of the access transistor and the pull-up transistor, formed in the first active region of both sides of each of the first and second gates, wherein one of the impurity diffusion regions is a common region;
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- impurity diffusion regions of the first conductivity type formed of the pull-down transistor in the second active region of both sides of the third gate, said memory cell comprising a static random access memory cell (SRAM).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.