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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
May. 04, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Helmut Fischer, Taufkirchen, DE;
Michael Markert, Augsburg, DE;
Helmut Schneider, München, DE;
Sabine Schöniger, Hausham, DE;
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/06 ;
Abstract
A layout of a sense amplifier configuration for a semiconductor memory is described. The layout has a plurality of read/write amplifiers, extending as strips in the form of rows one under the other, and having NMOS and PMOS transistors. At least one of the two driver transistors is disposed with its doping regions between the associated NMOS or PMOS transistors of the read/write amplifiers. A gate of the driver transistor is configured as a two-strip gate, in order to accelerate the signal evaluation in the sense amplifiers.