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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36523003 ; 326 41 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to the improvement in the degree of on-chip integration of memory cells utilizing a gate array layout. A plurality of three-transistor DRAM cells are disposed on a semiconductor chip implementing a regular cross-point array, each DRAM cell is made up of two nMOS transistors and one pMOS transistor formed in one basic cell. The semiconductor chip disposes therein nMOS memory-cell blocks and pMOS memory-cell blocks alternately, effectively utilizing the gate array layout.