The present invention discloses a non-volatile ferroelectric cell array
block having a hierarchy transfer sensing architecture. The cell array
block of the invention includes a plurality of sub cell arrays, each with
a hierarchy bit line architecture; a plurality of sub bit line sense
amplifiers for amplifying a voltage of a sub bit line; main bit line
sense amplifier for amplifying a voltage of a main bit line; and a
word/plate driver for selectively activating the word line and the plate
line in the sub cell array. The cell array block of the invention can be
advantageously used for performing more stable read and write operations
on a data even with a small sized cell, by having a sub bit line
capacitance independent of the main bit line.