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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2006
Applicant:
Midori Morooka, Yokohama, JP;
Inventor:
Midori Morooka, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention discloses a semiconductor integrated circuit device having nonvolatile semiconductor memory cells, bit lines each connected to one end of the nonvolatile semiconductor memory cells, and a data circuit connected to the bit lines to temporarily store program data for the nonvolatile semiconductor memory cells. During a data write operation, the data circuit changes a potential transferred to each bit line in accordance with a program order of the program data.