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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 1986
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1983
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A semiconductor memory having memory cells in each of which emitter terminals and first collector terminals of two IIL unit circuits are cross-connected to each other, injector regions and a common emitter region of the two IIL unit circuits are respectively connected to upper and lower word lines, and second collectors of the IIL unit circuits are respectively connected to a pair of bit lines that are respectively connected through load elements to a power source higher in voltage than the lower word line. This serves to hold the bit line potential higher than the lower word line potential to ensure that transistors formed by the second collectors, the emitters and the bases are inversely operated to prevent information loss during a read operation.