A semiconductor device comprising a memory region including one or more transistor string arrays, a logic region including one or more logic transistors and an isolation region for isolating the logic transistors. The string array includes a plurality, T, of bipolar junction transistors. The string array includes a common collector region for the T bipolar junction transistors, a common base region for the T bipolar junction transistors, a plurality of emitters, one emitter for each of the T bipolar junction transistors, a number, B, of base contacts for the T bipolar junction transistors where the base contacts electrically couple the common base region and where the number of base contacts, B, is less than the number of transistors, T.