Patent ID: 6480410
Filing Date: 2002-11-12
Classification: G11C

Abstract:
A nonvolatile ferroelectric memory device, comprising:a first sub cell array and a second sub cell array each including: a plurality of main cells, each main cell of the plurality of main cells having a split wordline pair including a first split wordline and a second split wordline, a main bitline pair including a first bitline and a second bitline, the first bitline and second bitline formed across the split wordline and the second split wordline, a reference cell coupled to the first bitline and second bitline, and a first column selector between the first bitline and a data bus and a second column selector between the second bitline and the databus, the first and second column selectors for selectively selecting the first or second bitlines; and a first sensing amplifier and a second sensing amplifier connected between the first sub cell array and the second sub cell array.