A method of storing, sensing and restoring three voltage levels (1.5 bit
per cell) of a plurality of memory cells in Dynamic random access memory
is disclosed. An asymmetrical sense amplifier, ASA, together with a 2 to
2 multiplex, will be used to detect the voltage difference on the bit
lines and transfer the voltage difference to digital data. ASA is
designed to have one input stronger than the other input. The multiplex
is controlled by a signal so that the connection between bit line pair
and two inputs of ASA is switched at different time and logical address.
Other transistors and circuits are also used to store and restore the
voltage levels into memory cells. Coding algorithms are used to get fast
read speed of this multi-level cell DRAM.