Static information storage and retrieval – Read/write circuit – Differential sensing
Patent
1997-05-30
1998-07-14
Le, Vu A.
Static information storage and retrieval
Read/write circuit
Differential sensing
365207, 365210, G11C 702
Patent
active
057814899
ABSTRACT:
The invention provides a semiconductor storage device which realizes such reliability that a current characteristic does not exhibit a variation even after use thereof over a long period of time without increasing the circuit area and the chip size. A non-volatile memory wherein an NMOS transistor of the stack gate type having a floating gate is used for a memory cell transistor and a sense amplifier of the differential amplification type is used employs an NMOS transistor of the single gate type for a reference cell transistor as a dummy memory cell in order to obtain a reference voltage for the sense amplifier. An intermediate potential obtained by voltage division by capacitance elements connected in series is supplied as a gate voltage to the reference cell transistor. The capacitances of the capacitance elements are set so that the ratio between them may be substantially equal to the capacitance ratio of the memory cell transistor.
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patent: 5198997 (1993-03-01), Arakawa
patent: 5621686 (1997-04-01), Alexis
patent: 5642308 (1997-06-01), Yoshida
Le Vu A.
NEC Corporation
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