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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2009
Applicants:
Atsushi Kawasumi, Kawasaki, JP;
Yukihiro Urakawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Inventors:
Atsushi Kawasumi, Kawasaki, JP;
Yukihiro Urakawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A latch circuit includes first and second inverters connected in a cross-coupling manner at a first node and a second node. A voltage application circuit applies a hot carrier generation voltage for generating hot carrier at a transistor included in the first inverter or the second inverter. An inverting circuit generates an inversion signal as an inverted signal of an amplified signal provided from the latch circuit to the bit line pair to provide the inversion signal to the first node and the second node.