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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2000
Nobutaka Itoh, Ome, JP;
Shuichi Miyaoka, Hanno, JP;
Yuji Yokoyama, Ome, JP;
Michiaki Nakayama, Ome, JP;
Mitsugu Kusunoki, Kunitachi, JP;
Kazumasa Takashima, Ome, JP;
Hideki Sakakibara, Ome, JP;
Toru Kobayashi, Iruma, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A semiconductor integrated circuit device has a memory array which includes amplifying MOSFETs of sense amplifiers which amplify small voltages read out of dynamic memory cells onto bit lines and column switch MOSFETs which select bit lines, a read/write section which includes main amplifiers for reading out stored data from memory cells selected by the column switch, and a logic circuit which implements the input/output operation of data with the read/write section. Two capacitors each having a first electrode which corresponds to a plate electrode with the same structure as that of storage capacitors of dynamic memory cells and a second electrode which is multiple commonly-connected storage nodes of the storage capacitors are arranged in serial connection, disposed contiguously to the read/write section, and connected between operation voltage lines of the read/write section.