摘要:
The present invention provides variable width CAM devices for searching data of variable widths. The CAM device includes a plurality of CAM blocks and a plurality of first encoders. The plurality of CAM blocks is configured to store a plurality of data of variable widths with each data having one or more data portions of one or more predetermined widths. Each CAM block is configured to store a predetermined width portion of the data such that each data is stored in one or more CAM blocks. The CAM blocks receive a search data having a specified number of search data portions with each search data portion having one or more predetermined widths. Each CAM block receives a search data portion of the search data for searching the search data in the CAM blocks. The plurality of dual mode first encoders is configured for concatenating the specified number of the CAM blocks to generate one or more search results. A set of the dual mode first encoders concatenates the specified number of CAM blocks to match the width of the search data. The remaining dual mode first encoders generate one or more search results when the concatenated CAM blocks contain data that matches the search data.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device is disclosed which has a data output circuit including a first node, a second node, first and second transistors connected in series between the first node and a potential line, third and fourth transistors connected in series between the first node and the potential line, fifth and sixth transistors connected in series between the second node and the potential line, seventh and eighth transistors connected in series between the second node and the potential line, one of the first and third transistors being driven in response to a data signal read from a selected memory cell and one of the fifth and seventh transistors being driven in response to an inverted data signal of the data signal in a normal mode while turning one of the second and fourth transistor and one of the sixth and eighth transistors ON, both of the first and third transistors being driven in response to the data signal and both of the fifth and seventh transistors being driven in response to the inverted data signal while all the second, fourth, sixth and eighth transistors ON. The output circuit further includes an output logic circuit driving an output terminal to one of first and second logic levels when the first and second nods have logic levels different from each other and to a high impedance when the first and second nodes have logic levels equal to each other.
摘要:
A system of Flash EEPROM memory chips with controlling circuits serves as non-volatile memory such as that provided by magnetic disk drives. The memory cells of the Flash EEPROM are partitioned into a plurality of sectors that individually are erasable together as a unit. The individual sectors are provided with a user data portion and an overhead portion which allow for operations similar to that of a magnetic disk drive. In one embodiment, information about defect mapping of cells for a sector is maintained in the overhead portion and used to map defective cells or the whole sector to spare ones. In another embodiment, an error correction code of the data in the user data portion is maintained in the overhead portion.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device has a plurality of memory cell arrays (12a,12b); input and output sections (11a, 11b) each provided so as to correspond to each of the memory cell arrays; and an allocating section (17) provided between the memory cell arrays and the input and output sections, for allocating one of the memory cell arrays to one of the input output sections in ordinary mode, and a plurality of the memory cell arrays to one of the input and output sections in test mode. In the operation test mode, since only a part of the input and output sections are used, it is possible to decrease the number of chips connected to the I/O pins (whose maximum number is limited) of the tester so as to be testable simultaneously, so that the number of chips whose operation tests can be implemented simultaneously can be increased, thus reducing the time required for the operation test of the memory device as a whole.
摘要:
A system of Flash EEPROM memory chips with controlling circuits serves as non-volatile memory such as that provided by magnetic disk drives. The memory cells of the Flash EEPROM are partitioned into a plurality of sectors that individually are erasable together as a unit. The individual sectors are provided with a user data portion and an overhead portion which allow for operations similar to that of a magnetic disk drive. In one embodiment, information about defect mapping of cells for a sector is maintained in the overhead portion and used to map defective cells or the whole sector to spare ones. In another embodiment, an error correction code of the data in the user data portion is maintained in the overhead portion.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device provided with at least one block pair. Each block contains therein bit line pairs, word lines, memory cells, and means for writing data by cooperating with the bit line pairs. The wiring pattern of the writing part located in one of the blocks is reversed to that of the writing part located in another block adjacent thereto, whereby the two facing bit lines of different blocks assume opposite logic levels when the same data logic is written into all the memory cells.
摘要:
In einem Testbetrieb Lesen wird innerhalb des Halbleiterspeichers jedes der über Datenleitungen - (DL) aus Zellenfeldern (ZF) parallel ausgelesenen Testdaten mit einem Vergleichsdatensignal (DI T ) verglichen, das den Testdaten entspricht. Das Testen des Halbleiterspeichers wird also nicht in einem angeschlossenen Testautomaten, sondern innerhalb des Halbleiterspeichers mittels einer Auswerteschaltung (AS) durchgeführt. Diese enthält eine aus Valenzschaltungen (VS) aufgebaute erste Vergleichsschaltung (VS1), eine zweite Vergleichsschaltung - (VS2) und eine Ergebnisschaltung (ES). Beispielsweise am Datenausgangsanschluß (D o ) liegt dann in dem Falle, in dem der Halbleiterspeicher in Ordnung ist (Gutfall), das Vergleichsdatensignal (DI T an. Es kann auch ein festes Potential wie logisch "1" oder logisch "0" anliegen. Im Fehlerfall liegt ein dazu komplementäres Signal an.