Patent ID: 8238183

Claim:
A semiconductor device capable of selectively reading and transmitting data stored in a plurality of memory cells through a bit line, the semiconductor device comprising: a sense amplifier circuit amplifying a signal transmitted through the bit line; a first data line transmitting the signal amplified by the sense amplifier circuit; a second data line transmitting the signal transmitted through the first data line; a read amplifier circuit driven by a first voltage, the read amplifier amplifying the signal transmitted through the second data line; a first switch circuit controlling an electrical connection between an output node of the sense amplifier circuit and a one end of the first data line; a second switch circuit controlling an electrical connection between an other end of the first data line and a one end of the second data line; a third switch circuit controlling an electrical connection between an other end of the second data line and a first node; a charge transfer transistor controlling a charge transfer between the first node and an input node of the read amplifier circuit in response to a control voltage applied to a gate terminal; a first voltage setting circuit setting the first data line to a second voltage lower than the first voltage; a second voltage setting circuit setting the second data line to the second voltage; a control voltage generating circuit generating the control voltage having a fixed voltage obtained by adding the second voltage to a threshold voltage of the charge transfer transistor; and a compensation capacitor formed at a line that supplies a the control voltage from the control voltage generating circuit to the charge transfer transistor, wherein each of the second and third switch circuits includes a first transistor having a gate terminal, a source terminal and a drain terminal, and a signal having a high-level voltage of a predetermined voltage is applied to the gate terminal of the first transistor, the predetermined voltage being the first voltage or being obtained by adding the second voltage to a threshold voltage of the first transistor.