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Semiconductor memory device with staggered sense amplifiers

US4903344A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 6, 1988
Grant dateFeb 20, 1990
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Expiry dateJul 6, 2008

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C7/18
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a semiconductor memory device of an open bit line configuration including a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, bit lines for adjacent columns are offset by about half their length in the column direction, and each bit line is terminated so as not to overlap, in the vertical direction, the sense amplifier of the bit line for the next column.

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