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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Noritsugu Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/100 ;
Abstract
A SRAM has a plurality of four-transistor/no-load memory cells each operating in a precharge mode for maintaining stored data based on off-leak currents of MOSFETs. The SRAM has a reference voltage generator, an impedance converter, a plurality of word line drivers, and a plurality of word lines each extending along a row of the memory cells.