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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tohru Miwa, Tokyo, JP;
Hideo Toyoshima, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Electronics Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/122 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/122 ;
Abstract
In a shadow RAM using a ferroelectric capacitor, a memory cell constituted by connecting a ferroelectric capacitor directly to each of storage nodes of an unloaded four-transistor SRAM cell formed of four transistors. Thus, the number of transistors per one memory cell can be reduced by two transistors, so that a storage capacity can be increased further.