KR20110060416A - Semiconductor memory apparatus - Google Patents
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The present invention relates to a semiconductor memory device and to an overdriving technology.
Among the semiconductor memory devices, DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory, DRAM) is a typical volatile memory (Volatile Memory). The memory cell of the DRAM is composed of a cell transistor and a cell capacitor. The cell transistor serves to control access to the cell capacitor, which stores the charge corresponding to the data. That is, the data is divided into high level data or low level data according to the amount of charge stored in the cell capacitor.
On the other hand, since the charge flows into or out of the cell capacitor due to the leakage component of the DRAM, it is necessary to periodically store the corresponding data again. The operation performed periodically to maintain the data accurately is called a refresh operation.
In an active mode, access to a DRAM memory cell is activated, and the bit line sense amplifier circuit senses and amplifies the data transmitted from the memory cell and transfers the data back to the memory cell. In addition, in the precharge mode, access to the memory cell is deactivated and data is maintained. That is, the refresh operation may be described as repeatedly performing the active operation and the precharge operation at regular intervals.
On the other hand, as the operating voltage of the semiconductor memory device is lowered and the cell capacitor capacity is reduced, the operation characteristics and the refresh characteristics of the bit line sensing amplifier circuit are deteriorated.
1 is a view illustrating a voltage change inside according to an operation mode of a semiconductor memory device of the related art.
Referring to FIG. 1, a first diagram 110 illustrating an operation when an active command, a data write command, and a precharge command are sequentially applied, and a first diagram 110 illustrating an operation when the active command and the precharge command are sequentially applied. Two figures 120 are shown.
First, referring to the
Next, referring to the
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been proposed to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object thereof is to provide a semiconductor memory device having an improved data retention time of a memory cell.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor memory device having an improved time for transferring write data to a memory cell.
According to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above technical problem, a bit line for sensing and amplifying the data of the pair of bit lines by the driving power supplied through the pull-up power line and pull-down power line to transfer the amplified data to the memory cell Sensing amplifier; A power drive signal generator configured to generate pull-up and pull-down power drive signals that are activated when an active command is applied and are deactivated when a precharge command is applied; An overdriving power driving signal generator configured to generate a pull-up overdriving power driving signal that is activated for a predetermined time in response to the precharge pulse signal; And driving a pull-up driving voltage to the pull-up power line in response to the pull-up power driving signal, driving a pull-down driving voltage to the pull-down power line in response to the pull-down power driving signal, and responding to the pull-up over driving power driving signal. And a power driver driving an overdriving voltage having a voltage level higher than the pull-up driving voltage to the pull-up power line.
In the semiconductor memory device to which the present invention is applied, the time at which a memory cell can reliably hold data, that is, a data retention time is improved.
In addition, since the refresh cycle can be made longer, the time for accessing the memory cell becomes longer, thereby improving the performance of the semiconductor memory device.
In addition, since the time tWR for applying a precharge command after the time of applying the data write command can be shortened, the data writing performance is improved.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the technical idea of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram illustrating a semiconductor memory device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
The semiconductor memory device according to the present embodiment includes only a brief configuration for clearly describing the technical idea to be proposed. For reference, data stored in the semiconductor memory device may be classified into high level (high level) or low level (low level) according to a voltage level, and may be expressed as '1' and '0', respectively. . In this case, data values are differentially classified according to voltage level and current size. In the case of binary data, a high level is defined as a high voltage and a low level is defined as a voltage lower than a high level.
Referring to FIG. 2, the semiconductor memory device includes a bit
The bit
The power
The overdriving power
The
The internal operation of each command input of the semiconductor memory device according to the present embodiment is performed as follows.
First, when an active command is applied, the word line WL is activated, and data stored in the memory cells MN10 and C is transferred to the positive bit line BL. Therefore, a voltage difference ΔV occurs between the positive bit line and the negative bit line, and the bit
Next, since the YI signal is activated when the write command is applied, the data transfer transistors MN14 and MN15 are turned on so that the write data WRITE DATA is transferred to the bit line pair BL-BLB. At this time, the bit line detection amplifier 10 detects and amplifies write data WRITE DATA of the bit line pair BBL to the memory cells MN10 and C. At this time, assuming that the high level write data WRITE DATA is transferred, the bit
Next, when the precharge command is applied, the word line WL is inactivated, and access to the memory cells MN10 and C is blocked. In addition, the pull-up power line RTO and the pull-down power line SB, the positive bit line BL, and the negative bit line BLB are precharged with the precharge voltage VBLP. Meanwhile, the word line WL is deactivated after a predetermined time after the precharge command is applied, and the
For reference, when the precharge command command is applied after the active command to perform the same operation as the refresh operation, the data is transferred to the memory cells MN10 and C using the overdriving voltage VDD. The data holding time of C) is improved.
3 is a diagram illustrating a voltage change in an internal mode according to an operation mode of a semiconductor memory device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 3, a
3 and 2, the internal operation of the semiconductor memory device according to the present embodiment will be described.
First, referring to the
Next, referring to the second drawing 320, when the active command ACTTIVE CMD is applied, the word line WL is activated at a high level, and data stored in the memory cells MN10 and C is positive bit line BL. The voltage difference DELTA V occurs between the bit line pairs BLBBL. The bit
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention can be implemented in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features thereof. Therefore, the above-described embodiments are to be understood as illustrative in all respects and not as restrictive. The scope of the present invention is shown by the following claims rather than the detailed description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention. do.
1 is a view illustrating a voltage change inside according to an operation mode of a semiconductor memory device of the related art.
2 is a block diagram illustrating a semiconductor memory device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram illustrating a voltage change in an internal mode according to an operation mode of a semiconductor memory device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
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10: bit line detection amplifier
20: power drive signal generator
30: over-driving power drive signal generator
40: power drive unit
In the figure, PMOS transistors and NMOS transistors are denoted by MPi and MNi (i = 0, 1, 2, ...), respectively.
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