PURPOSE: To simultaneously realize a high speed and high grade integration by using a differential amplifier constituted of a flip flop of a CMOS type as a bit line sense amplifier and plural bipolar transistors and MOS transistors and connecting the input node of the differential amplifier and the bit line with a capacity coupling.
CONSTITUTION: Since one MOS transistor Q1 and one capacitor C1 are used for one memory cell, the high integration two W four times of a static RA, in the same design rule. In a dynamic RAM difficult in the coupling to the BICMOS differential amplifiers Q9WQ20, the data of the bit line is transferred to the BICMOS differential amplifiers Q9WQ20 by the capacity coupling through capacitances C3, C4. Thus, the bit line and the differential amplifier can be separated in a direct current, so that the rewriting (restoring) of the memory cell can be easily carried out by the CMOS flip flops Q3WQ8. The data of the bit line transferred to the differential amplifier by the capacity coupling is amplified at higher speed by the differential amplifier.
WATANABE YOJI
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