摘要:
A specially designed module and integrated circuit chip therefor which permits the sharing of module EC pads between chip receiver and driver circuits. The chip has a direct normal input line to each receiver circuit therein and a direct normal output line from each driver circuit therein along with signal lines from each of those circuits to various EC pads. The chip further includes a switching and control circuit for switching the receiver circuits and driver circuits between their normal and EC lines to effect an electronic delete function. In a preferred embodiment, a majority of the EC pads are switchably connected via the switching and control circuit to different sets of three adjacent receiver circuits, driver circuits, or a combination thereof. The design permits the use of approximately half the EC pads normally required for a module, while permitting EC connections to be made in most cases to three adjacent receiver or driver circuits simultaneously.
摘要:
A specially designed module and integrated circuit chip therefor which permits the sharing of module EC pads between chip receiver and driver circuits. The chip has a direct normal input line to each receiver circuit therein and a direct normal output line from each driver circuit therein along with signal lines from each of those circuits to various EC pads. The chip further includes a switching and control circuit for switching the receiver circuits and driver circuits between their normal and EC lines to effect an electronic delete function. In a preferred embodiment, a majority of the EC pads are switchably connected via the switching and control circuit to different sets of three adjacent receiver circuits, driver circuits, or a combination thereof. The design permits the use of approximately half the EC pads normally required for a module, while permitting EC connections to be made in most cases to three adjacent receiver or driver circuits simultaneously.
摘要:
A two state memory cell includes a bipolar transistor (11) and a tunnel diode (16) shunted across the base-collector junction thereof. A constant operating current is established through the transistor (11) and the tunnel diode (16). The voltage across the tunnel diode (16) may thus be maintained at one of two stable levels, while the bipolar transistor (11) is kept on regardless of the tunnel diode voltage, which determines the ZERO or ONE state of the cell. Since the transistor (11) is not switched on and off when the memory state (corresponding to the two tunnel diode voltage levels) changes, memory cell switching speed is not degraded by transistor switching delay. Moreover, since the current in the tunnel diode (16) is maintained constant, preferably at a value midway between the tunnel diode peak and valley currents, the noise margin of the memory cell is enhanced and the possibility of false switching reduced. The tunnel diode/bipolar transistor combination may be formed on a semiconductor substrate as an integrated structure, thereby providing a high density memory cell.
摘要:
The storage is fabricated in integrated circuit form, typically on a semiconductor chip, each storage cell being contained within a single isolated zone formed in the semiconductor chip. Each storage cell is DC stable and operates on a conductivity modulation principle, i.e. a cell conducts when it stores a binary "1" and the conductive state is maintained by conductivity modulation of an element of the cell, and the cell is non-conducting when storing a binary "0". In its most basic form, each cell includes at least two resistors (R2, R2'; R3, R3', R2"') formed in series in a P type semiconductor region (18, 20). At least one of the resistors, formed in a lightly doped portion of the P type region, is a variable resistor (R2, R2", R2"') having both high and low values of resistance. The high value of resistance is changed to a low value of resistance by injecting electrons from a proximate N type semiconductor region. The low value of resistance is then maintained by the current conducted through the storage cell during standby.
摘要:
A 3-way EXCLUSIVE OR function is performed with an essentially single stage logic delay. A 3-way OR circuit (10) produces a logical "1" output whenever at least one of three input operands is " 1". A TWO AND ONLY TWO logic circuit (20A) comprising three 3-way NAND- circuits (22, 24, 26) produces a logical "0" output when two and only two of the three input operands are "1". The outputs of the OR circuit (10) and the TWO AND ONLY TWO logic circuit (20A) are DOT-ANDed at a DOT-AND circuit (30A) to provide the desired EXCLUSIVE OR function.