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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2002
Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Osaka, JP;
Kazuo Itoh, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An SRAM device according to the present invention comprises a memory cell including a first pair of bit lines connected to a first port, a second pair of bit lines connected to a second port, a first inverter, and a second inverter having an input terminal connected to the output terminal of the first inverter and an output terminal connected to the input terminal of the first inverter. The memory cell has a first region in which an impurity of a first conductivity type is diffused and second and third regions each of a second conductivity type which are adjacent to the first region and opposed to each other with the first region interposed therebetween. The first pair of bit lines are disposed on the second region and the second pair of bit lines are disposed on the third region.