| 20100220540 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE CAPABLE OF DRIVING NON-SELECTED WORD LINES TO FIRST AND SECOND POTENTIALS - A semiconductor device includes a word line drive circuit for resetting the word line by driving the word line connected to a memory cell and is constituted so as to switch a reset level of the word line drive circuit, which is set at the time of the reset operation of the word line, between a first potential such as a ground potential and a second potential such as a negative potential. Further, a semiconductor device including a memory cell array formed by arranging a plurality of memory cells and a word line reset level generating circuit for generating a negative potential makes it possible to vary the amount of a current supply of the word line reset level generating circuit when non-selected word lines are set to a negative potential by applying the output of the word line reset level generating circuit to the non-selected word lines, and varies the amount of the current supply of the negative potential in accordance with the operation of the memory cell array. Furthermore, in a semiconductor device including a plurality of power source circuits each having an oscillation circuit and a capacitor, for driving the capacitor by the oscillation signal outputted by the oscillation circuit, at least a part of these power source circuits shares in common the oscillation circuit, and different capacitors are driven by the oscillation signal outputted from the common oscillation circuit. | 09-02-2010 |
