“…R ECENTLY, it has become increasingly important to lower the supply voltage of flash memories for low-power handheld digital equipment. In [1], the pool method, which generates a wordline voltage even in stand-by state, is compared with the kicker method [2], which generates by kicking a boosting capacitor at every address transition, and the former is found to have the advantages of fast access time, low power, and small circuit area, but to be disadvantageous with respect to stand-by current. Fig.…”