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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2001
Applicant:
Shigeki Tomishima, Hyogo, JP;
Inventor:
Shigeki Tomishima, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
Renesas Technology Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L027/108 ; H01L029/76 ; H01L029/94 ; H01L031/119 ; H01L029/788 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A first level metal interconnection line in a layer below a third level metal interconnection line serving as a main word line MWL is used as a shunting interconnection line and electrically connected to a first level polysilicon interconnection line constituting a sub word line SWL at prescribed intervals. By applying a hierarchical word line structure and a word line shunting structure both, a word line is driven into a selected state at high speed without increasing an array occupancy area and manufacturing steps.