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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2013
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Takanori Ueda, Osaka, JP;
Kazuyuki Kouno, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A memory cell array includes a plurality of word lines each connected to gates of cell transistors in corresponding ones of a plurality of memory cells, a plurality of first control lines, a plurality of second control lines, a first ground circuit configured to ground the first control lines together in accordance with a first signal, and the first ground circuit includes a plurality of first transistors provided in a one-to-one correspondence with the first control lines, and each including a drain connected to a corresponding one of the first control lines, a first ground line configured to ground sources of the first transistors together, and a first signal line connected to gates of the first transistors to feed the first signal to the gates.