Semiconductor device having read and write operations corresponding to read and write row control signals

• Main Authors: KIKUKAWA HIROHITO, OHTA KIYOTO, FUJIMOTO TOMONORI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 14.11.2006
• Subjects: INFORMATION STORAGE; PHYSICS; STATIC STORES

In a semiconductor device that needs a refresh operation for storing data, data of memory cells selected in response to a row address is read to main amplifiers through bit line pairs, sense amplifiers and data line pairs in a page-mode read operation. Thereafter, while outputting the data held in the main amplifiers to the outside, connecting transistors are turned off so as to disconnect the main amplifiers from the memory cells, and thus, the memory cells can be precharged. Also, in a page-mode write operation, while writing externally supplied input data in the main amplifiers, the memory cells can be precharged.