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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2003
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takashi Nakabayashi, Hirakata, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
Abstract
A semiconductor device is provided in which the difference in characteristics between a pair of sense amplifier transistors of a DRAM is suppressed, whereby the sensitivity of a sense amplifier is enhanced. A pair of gate electrodes of a N-type sense amplifier transistor and a pair of gate electrodes of a P-type sense amplifier transistor constituting a CMOS sense amplifier of the DRAM respectively are placed in parallel to each other in one active region in the same direction as that of bit lines. A pair of adjacent N-type sense amplifier transistors and a pair of adjacent P-type sense amplifier transistors are isolated by STI.