Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Resistance random access memory having common source line
- Patent Title (中): 具有共同源极线的电阻随机存取存储器
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Application No.: US11964142Application Date: 2007-12-26
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Publication No.: US07903448B2Publication Date: 2011-03-08
- Inventor: Hyung-Rok Oh , Sang-Beom Kang , Joon-Min Park , Woo-Yeong Cho
- Applicant: Hyung-Rok Oh , Sang-Beom Kang , Joon-Min Park , Woo-Yeong Cho
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do
- Agency: Volentine & Whitt, PLLC
- Priority: KR10-2007-0006916 20070123
- Main IPC: G11C11/00
- IPC: G11C11/00

Abstract:
A resistance random access memory (RRAM) having a source line shared structure and an associated data access method. The RRAM, in which a write operation of writing data of first state and second state to a selected memory cell is performed through first and second write paths having mutually opposite directions, includes word lines, bit lines, a memory cell array and a plurality of source lines. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells each constructed of an access transistor coupled to a resistive memory device. The memory cells are disposed in a matrix of rows and columns and located at each intersection of a word line and a bit line. Each of the plurality of source lines is disposed between a pair of word lines and in the same direction as the word lines. A positive voltage is applied to a source line in a memory cell write operation. Through the source line shared structure, occupied chip area is reduced and, in a write operating mode, a bit line potential can be determined within a positive voltage level range.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080175036A1 RESISTANCE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY HAVING COMMON SOURCE LINE Public/Granted day:2008-07-24
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