Semiconductor device formed in a rectangle region on a semiconductor substrate including a voltage generating circuit
US6657901B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Inventors
- Kazuhiko Kajigaya
- Kazuyuki Miyazawa
- Manabu Tsunozaki
- Kazuyoshi Oshima
- Takashi Yamazaki
- Yuji Sakai
- Jiro Sawada
- Yasunori Yamaguchi
- Tetsurou Matsumoto
- Shinji Udo
- Hiroshi Yoshioka
- Hirokazu Saito
- Mitsuhiro Takano
- Makoto Morino
- Sinichi Miyatake
- Eiji Miyamoto
- Yasuhiro Kasama
- Akira Endo
- Ryoichi Hori
- Jun Etoh
- Masashi Horiguchi
- Shinichi Ikenaga
- Atsushi Kumata
Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 26, 2002 |
| Grant date | Dec 2, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 26, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01L2924/3025
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A semiconductor memory device, in which peripheral circuits are arranged in a cross area of a semiconductor chip composed of the longitudinal center portions and the transverse center portions, and in which memory arrays are arranged in the four regions which are divided by the cross area. A benefit of this structure in which the peripheral circuits are arranged at the center portion of the chip, is that the longest signal transmission paths can be shortened to about one half of the chip size to speed up the DRAM which is intended to have a large storage capacity.
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