Integrated semiconductor memory with internal voltage booster of

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1995-06-01

1996-03-12

Nelms, David C.

Static information storage and retrieval

Read/write circuit

Including level shift or pull-up circuit

36518909, 365226, 36523006, 327390, 327536, G11C 700, H03K 17687

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054992095

ABSTRACT:
A word-line drive voltage generation circuit for use in a dynamic random-access memory is disclosed which is connected to a word line via a row decoder including MOS transistors. The circuit includes a charge-bootstrap capacitor having insulated electrodes, one of which is connected to a first reference voltage generator via a switching MOS transistor, and the other of which is connected via a MOS transistor to a second reference voltage generator. These voltage generators provide the capacitor with the constant d.c. voltage that are essentially insensitive to variation in the power supply voltage for the memory. The resultant word-line drive voltage may thus be free from variation in the power supply voltage during the operation modes of the memory. This enables the word-line voltage to be high enough to allow successful "H" level writing at a selected memory cell without creation of any unwantedly increased dielectric breakdown therein, in the entire allowable range of the power supply voltage.

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patent: 4896297 (1990-01-01), Miyatake et al.
patent: 5124631 (1992-06-01), Terashima

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