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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenichi Origasa, Takatsuki, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
Abstract
To provide a semiconductor memory which can drive a word line faster than a conventional art, and reduce a layout area when a chip is formed as a semiconductor integrated circuit, thereby miniaturizing the chip. In the present invention, a word driver for driving the word line is constituted by a one-stage row decoder and a one-stage word driver group, and a load on a word line select signal is reduced, thereby driving the word line at high speeds.