Patent ID: 8278700

Claim:
A semiconductor device comprising a single nonvolatile memory cell, wherein the single nonvolatile memory cell includes: a first region formed in a semiconductor substrate and serving as one of a source region and a drain region; a second region formed in the semiconductor substrate and serving as another of the source region and the drain region; an active region serving as a channel forming region and formed in the semiconductor substrate, in a first direction, between the first and the second region; a first gate electrode formed on a first part of the active region through a first insulator film; a second gate electrode formed on a second part of the active region through a second insulator, the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode arranged, in the first direction, side by side in the active region such that the first part is separately arranged, in the first direction, between the second part and the first region and such that the second part is separately arranged, in the first direction, between the first part and the second region; and a charge trap region formed between the first insulator film and the first gate electrode, wherein the first gate electrode includes a semiconductor film of a first conductivity type (n-type), wherein the second gate electrode includes a semiconductor film of a second conductivity type (p-type).