US 12,142,321 B2
Semiconductor storage device including a voltage difference generation circuit
Tomohiko Ito, Kawasaki (JP)
Assigned to Kioxia Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Kioxia Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/818,833.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-211390 (JP), filed on Dec. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0207014 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. G11C 16/08 (2006.01)
CPC G11C 16/08 (2013.01) 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor storage device comprising:
a block including a plurality of memory cells;
a word line connected to gates of the plurality of memory cells;
a plurality of bit lines connected respectively to one ends of the plurality of memory cells;
a first wiring;
a connection transistor configured to electrically connect the first wiring to the word line based on a signal supplied to a gate of the connection transistor;
a block decoder configured to supply the signal to the gate of the connection transistor; and
a voltage generation circuit including
a first node from which a first voltage for generating the signal is supplied to the block decoder,
a second node from which a second voltage is supplied to the first wiring, and
a voltage difference generation circuit connected between the first node and the second node, wherein
the voltage difference generation circuit includes
a first transistor having
a first terminal connected to the first node,
a gate connected to the first node, and
a second terminal,
a second transistor having
a first terminal connected to the second terminal of the first transistor,
a gate connected to the second terminal of the first transistor, and
a second terminal connected to the second node, and
at least one third transistor each having
a first terminal connected to the first node,
a gate connected to the gate of the second transistor, and
a second terminal connected to the second node, and
the at least one third transistor, all together, has a current drivability greater than a current drivability of the second transistor.