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US 7,692,252 · App. 11/567,805 · Granted Apr 6, 2010

EEPROM array with well contacts

Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
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Patent No.
US 7,692,252
App. No.
11/567,805
Granted
Apr 6, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a cell well, a memory cell array formed on the cell well and having a memory cell area and cell well contact area, first wiring bodies arranged in the memory cell area, and second wiring bodies arranged in the cell well contact area. The layout pattern of the second wiring bodies is the same as the layout pattern of the first wiring bodies. The cell well contact area comprises cell well contacts that have the same dopant type as the cell well and that function as source/drain regions of dummy transistors formed in the cell well contact area.

Claims (11)

1. A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising:

a cell well,

a memory cell array formed on the cell well and having a memory cell area and cell well contact area,

first wiring bodies arranged in the memory cell area, and

second wiring bodies arranged in the cell well contact area,

wherein a layout pattern of the first wiring bodies is the same as a layout pattern of the second wiring bodies,

wherein the first wiring bodies include bit lines, word lines and block selection lines, the second wiring bodies include cell well bias lines, word lines and block selection lines, the bit lines and cell well bias lines are formed by use of the same conductive layer and width of the bit line in a row direction is the same as width of the cell well bias line in the row direction,

wherein transistors each having a source/drain portion of the same conductivity type as the conductivity type of the cell well are formed below the cell well bias line and the cell well bias line is connected to the cell well via the source/drain portion of the above same conductivity type.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein transistors each having a source/drain portion of a conductivity type opposite to the conductivity type of the cell well are formed below the bit line, the bit line is connected to the transistors via the source/drain portions of the opposite conductivity type and connection portions between the cell well bias lines and the cell well and connection portions between the bit line and the transistors are aligned in the row direction.

3. The device according to claim 2 , wherein charge storage layers which are insulated from the word lines are provided below the word lines, and conductive layers which are formed by use of the same conductive body as the charge storage layer and formed in electrical contact with the block selection lines are provided below the block selection lines.

4. The device according to claim 1 , wherein charge storage layers which are insulated from the word lines are provided below the word lines, and conductive layers which are formed by use of the same conductive body as the charge storage layer and formed in electrical contact with the block selection lines are provided below the block selection lines.

Assignments (5)
CHANGE OF NAME AND ADDRESS Recorded Jan 22, 2021
From: K.K. PANGEA
To: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 055669/0401 →
MERGER Recorded Jan 22, 2021
From: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
To: K.K. PANGEA
Reel/Frame 055659/0471 →
CHANGE OF NAME AND ADDRESS Recorded Jan 22, 2021
From: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
To: KIOXIA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 055669/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 24, 2017
From: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
To: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 043709/0035 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 8, 2006
From: SATO, ATSUHIRO; SUGIMAE, KIKUKO; ICHIGE, MASAYUKI
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
Reel/Frame 018690/0622 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2005-100955 · Mar 31, 2005 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP200501720600 · Sep 12, 2005
Related Publication 20070096218A1 · May 3, 2007