Patent 7474583 was granted and assigned to Sony on January, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A semiconductor memory device has SRAM cells each including: a pair of inverters; a feed control switch connected between a feeding point of the pair of inverters and a power supply voltage supply line; and a boosting device configured to boost a voltage of the feeding point electrically isolated from the power supply voltage supply line by the feed control switch.