Patent ID: 8693249

Claim:
A semiconductor memory device, comprising a memory array, composed of a plurality of cell units, wherein each cell unit is composed of electrically-erasable programmable read-only memory cells connected in series; a row selection circuit, selecting the memory cells in a row direction of the cell units; and a bit line selection circuit, selecting a bit line from an even bit line and an odd bit line coupled to the cell units; wherein the bit line selection circuit comprises: a first selection part comprising selection transistors for selectively coupling the even bit line or the odd bit line to a sensor circuit; and a second selection part comprising bias transistors for selectively coupling the even bit line or the odd bit line to a voltage source providing biases, wherein the bias transistors and the memory cells are formed in a common well; wherein the bias transistors comprise even bias transistors coupled between the even bit line and the voltage source and odd bias transistors coupled between the odd bit line and the voltage source, and the even bias transistors and the odd bias transistors, respectively comprise a plurality of transistors coupled in parallel; wherein the voltage source comprises a strip extended in a column direction in a well of a semiconductor, gate electrodes of the even bias transistors are configured on one side of the voltage source, the gate electrodes of the odd bias transistors are configured on the other side of the voltage source, the voltage source is electrically coupled to diffusion regions of the even bias transistors and the odd bias transistors, the even bit line and the odd bit line comprise a strip extended in a row direction and orthogonal to the voltage source, the even bit line is coupled to the diffusion regions of the even bias transistors and the odd bit line is coupled to the diffusion regions of the odd bias transistors.