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Yuki Matsuda

Kazuki Watanabe

Norihisa Yamamoto

Kazuhiro Matsushita

A nonvolatile memory device and a data processing system with a reduced layout area are capable of efficiently generating a high voltage without deteriorating the charge transfer efficiency of a charge pump circuit. The charge pump circuit in a nonvolatile memory device includes a plurality of stages of charge pump unit circuits. A voltage generating unit provides, as a control signal to the gate of a first MOS transistor for transferring charges from a first capacitor of a charge pump unit circuit of one stage to a first capacitor at the next stage, a fourth signal having an amplitude of a difference voltage between the power supply voltage and the charge pump voltage of the first capacitor at the one stage. The fourth control signal is obtained from second and third signals each changing in amplitude of the power supply voltage. The second signal is supplied via a second capacitor.

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Yuki Matsuda