Patent ID: 7535752

Claim:
A semiconductor static random access memory device, comprising: a first inverter being composed of a first P-channel MOS transistor formed at a high potential power supply side and a first N-channel MOS transistor formed at a low potential power supply side; a second inverter being composed of a second P-channel MOS transistor formed at the high potential power supply side and a second N-channel transistor formed at the low potential power supply side, an input of the second inverter connecting with an output of the first inverter, an output of the second inverter connecting with an input of the first inverter; a data-retaining portion having a third N-channel MOS transistor, a fourth N-channel MOS transistor, a fifth N-channel MOS transistor and a sixth N-channel MOS transistor, the third N-channel MOS transistor having a source connecting with the output of the first inverter, a drain connecting with a first bit line and a gate connecting with a word line, and the fourth N-channel MOS transistor having a source connecting with the output of the second inverter, a drain connecting with a second bit line paired with the first bit line and a gate connecting with the word line, a drain of the fifth N-channel MOS transistor connecting with the first bit line, a gate of the fifth N-channel MOS transistor connecting with the word line, a drain of the sixth N-channel MOS transistor connecting with the source of the fifth N-channel MOS transistor, a source of the sixth N-channel MOS transistor connecting with the low potential power supply and a gate of the sixth N-channel MOS transistor connecting with the output of the second inverter; a data-reading portion having a first group of transistors including at least one N-channel MOS transistor, data-reading portion reading out data stored in the data-retaining portion via the first bit line; a first P-well region including the first N-channel MOS transistor, the third N-channel MOS transistor and the first group of transistors; a second P-well region including the second N-channel MOS transistor and the fourth N-channel MOS transistor; and an N-well region being interposed between the first P-well region and the second P-well region, the N-well region adjoining the first group of transistors in the first P-well region, the N-well region having the first P-channel MOS transistor and the second P-channel MOS transistor, wherein gate widths of the fifth N-channel MOS transistor and the sixth N-channel MOS transistor, respectively, is lamer than gate widths of the first N-channel MOS transistor. the second N-channel MOS transistor, the third N-channel MOS transistor, the fourth N-channel MOS transistor, the first P-channel MOS transistor and the second P-channel MOS transistor. respectively.