A nonvolatile ferroelectric memory device and a method for writing and reading
multiple-bit data using the same, in which multiple bit data is stored in one cell
to reduce a cell layout area, thereby obtaining price competitiveness of a chip.
The nonvolatile ferroelectric memory device includes a sensing amplifier block
having multiple sensing amplifiers comparing multiple-level signals from main bitlines
and sensing them in a multiple-bit, the sensing amplifiers being commonly used
in a multiple cell array blocks to feed the sensed multiple-bit levels back and
restore them in a cell, and switching transistors arranged one by one per sub bitline
to sense data values of the unit cell.