Abstract:
A circuit for controlling a signal line transmitting data. The circuit includes a data level controller that, when the level of the data transmitted through the signal line is changed, controls the level of the data to be lower than an external power supply voltage level and higher than a ground voltage level after a predetermined time.
Abstract:
Provided is a parallel program execution method in which in order to reflect structural characteristics of a multithreaded processor-based parallel system, performance of the parallel loop is predicted while compiling or executing using a performance prediction model and then the parallel program is executed using an adaptive execution method.The method includes the steps of: generating as many threads as the number of physical processors of the parallel system in order to execute at least one parallel loop contained in the parallel program; by the generated threads, executing at least one single loop of each parallel loop; measuring an execution time, the number of executed instructions, and the number of cache misses for each parallel loop; determining an execution mode of each parallel loop by determining the number of threads used to execute each parallel loop based on the measured values; and allocating the threads to each physical processor according to the result of the determination to execute each parallel loop.The method significantly improves the performance of the parallel program driven in the multithreaded processor-based parallel system.
Abstract:
There is provided a multi-port memory device, which is capable of preventing a first high data fail phenomenon at an initial operation in a current sensing type global data bus transmission/reception structure without causing a problem in a low data transmission. In the multi-port memory device having a data transmission/reception block (bank, port, global data bus connection block, etc.) which exchanges data with the global data bus in a current sensing type data transmission/reception structure, an initialization switch is used to discharge each global data bus line and an initialization signal generator controls the initialization switch. A first high data fail at the initial operation is caused by a high precharge level of the global data bus. According to the present invention, it is possible to lower a high precharge level without causing a problem in data transmission.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus to detect data in a data storage device, and a method and an apparatus to effectively detect data in channels having characteristics in which bands of data to be reproduced are limited. The method includes partially selecting partial paths from paths of a Viterbi trellis having a number corresponding to an order of a polynomial used in equalization, in an order where path metric values increase from a path having a minimum path metric value, deciding a best path having a minimum path metric value among the partial paths, and detecting data based on the best path.
Abstract:
A multi-port memory device that prevents degradation of efficiency of a global data drive by turning off the switches, which do not discharge a global data bus. The multi-port memory device includes a global data bus, a banks, each bank including a transmitter and a receiver; ports, each port including a transmitter and a receiver; switches that operate to selectively connect the receivers of the banks and ports to the global data bus; and a switch signal generator for generating a switch signal in response to data drive pulses inputted to the transmitters of the banks and the ports.
Abstract:
A multi-port memory device improves efficiency of a global data drive by controlling the global data bus to transmit data in a predetermined range. The multi-port memory device includes a global data bus; transmitters and receivers; a termination unit for controlling the global data bus to transmit the data in a range between a first voltage and a second voltage in response to an active mode signal; and a voltage generator for generating the first and the second voltages. The first voltage is higher than a ground voltage and the second voltage is lower than a power supply voltage.
Abstract:
A semiconductor memory device with a reduced cell area and a high-speed data transfer by modifying a circuit layout. The semiconductor memory device includes: a cell area with a first and a second cell areas; a plurality of Y decoders of which one Y decoder selects bit line sense amplifiers in the first and the second cell areas; IO sense amplifiers provided with a first IO sense amplifier and a second IO sense amplifier; a plurality of first data lines for transferring a data sensed and amplified at the bit line sense amplifier of the first cell area; and a plurality of second data lines for transferring a data sensed and amplified at the bit line sense amplifier of the second cell area.
Abstract:
A charge trap insulator memory device comprises a plurality of memory cells connected serially, a first switching device, and a second switching device. In the plurality of memory cells, data applied through a bit line depending on potentials applied to a top word line and a bottom word line are stored in a charge trap insulator or the data stored in the charge trap insulator are outputted to the bit line. The first switching element selectively connects the plurality of memory cells to the bit line in response to a first selecting signal. The second switching element selectively connects the plurality of memory cells to a sensing line in response to a second selecting signal.
Abstract:
A voltage generator with reduced noise features a detector, a controller, a sub-booster, a main booster and a voltage adder. The detector receives an output voltage, a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage lower than the first reference voltage, and then outputs a first sensing signal and a second sensing signal. The controller receives the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal and an action signal to output a first control signal and a second control signal. The sub-booster boosts a voltage in response of the first control signal. The main booster boosts a voltage in response to the second control signal. The voltage adder adds output signals from the sub-booster and main booster, to provide the output voltage.
Abstract:
The present relates to a memory device; and, more particularly, to an apparatus and a method for preventing a loss of reliability of data, which are stored in memory cell, at the time of restoring and writing the data. The semiconductor memory device according to the present invention comprises: a high voltage generator for boosting an external voltage level and then for producing a first high voltage level; a pumping control signal generator for issuing a pumping control signal, which is activated in a restore section and a write section, in response to a command signal; a pumping unit for outputting the first high voltage level from the high voltage generator or for boosting the high voltage level in order to generate a second high voltage plus level in response to the pumping control signal from the pumping control signal generator, wherein the second high voltage plus level is higher than the first high voltage level; and a word line driver for driving the word line WL using the first high voltage level and for driving the word line WL using the second high voltage plus level from the pumping unit in the restore and write sections.