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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takuji Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/604 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/604 ;
Abstract
An electrically erasable programmable read-only memory cell array has a plurality of memory cells supplied with a supply voltage and a ground voltage. Each memory cell has a storage transistor with a floating gate. For each of selected memory cells, a first voltage higher than both the supply voltage and the ground voltage is applied to the control gate of the storage transistor and a second voltage lower than both the supply voltage and the ground voltage is applied to one of the source/drain electrodes of the storage transistor to thereby erase data in all of the selected memory cells.