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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2010
Soon-jyh Chang, Tainan, TW;
Ming-liang Chung, Tainan, TW;
Po-ying Chen, Tainan, TW;
Chung-ming Huang, Tainan, TW;
Soon-Jyh Chang, Tainan, TW;
Ming-Liang Chung, Tainan, TW;
Po-Ying Chen, Tainan, TW;
Chung-Ming Huang, Tainan, TW;
Himax Technologies Limited, Tainan County, TW;
NCKU Research and Development Foundation, Tainan, TW;
Abstract
A memory cell includes a pair of sub-cells, each including an access transistor, a storage transistor, and an isolation transistor that are serially coupled in sequence with their source/drain connected. The isolation transistor is shared with a sub-cell of an adjacent memory cell and always turned off, wherein the storage transistor is always turned on. A wordline is coupled to a gate of the access transistor of each sub-cell, and complementary bit lines are respectively coupled to sources/drains of the access transistors of the pair of sub-cells, such that data bit may be accessed between the bit line and the corresponding storage transistor through the corresponding access transistor.