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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Renesas Electronics Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Renesas Electronics Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A first exemplary aspect of the present invention is a word line selection circuit where address decode signals composed of a power supply voltage and a first voltage lower than a ground voltage are input, and that a word line selection signal composed of the first voltage and a second voltage higher than the power supply voltage is output not via a level shift circuit according to the address decode signals.