Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor device having sense amplifier
- Patent Title (中): 具有读出放大器的半导体器件
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Application No.: US13304040Application Date: 2011-11-23
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Publication No.: US08422326B2Publication Date: 2013-04-16
- Inventor: Hiroki Fujisawa , Ryuuji Takishita
- Applicant: Hiroki Fujisawa , Ryuuji Takishita
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Elpida Memory, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Elpida Memory, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: McGinn IP Law Group, PLLC
- Priority: JP2010-262141 20101125
- Main IPC: G11C7/06
- IPC: G11C7/06

Abstract:
For example, four driver transistors are arranged in wells so as to adjoin both sides of each of two element isolation regions. Two pairs of cross-coupled sense transistors are arranged in the wells at positions farther from the element isolation regions than the driver transistors are. Such an arrangement provides more than a certain distance between the sense transistors and the respective corresponding element isolation regions. This reduces the effect of a phenomenon that threshold of a transistor varies according to a distance from an element isolation region. As a result, it is possible to exactly match the characteristics of each pair of cross-coupled transistors.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120134227A1 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING SENSE AMPLIFIER Public/Granted day:2012-05-31
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