摘要:
When a disturb refresh mode is detected by a mode detecting circuit, a row decoder control circuit simultaneously activates every several word lines of a memory cell array of a block selected by an operation block selecting circuit through a row decoder and a driving circuit, reads out data written in a normal mode, and determines a memory cell having a threshold value lower than that of a design value upon determination of match of read data and written data.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device uses in a test mode a clock signal from a tester to allow a test clock conversion circuit and a DLL circuit to generate a rapid internal clock. The internal clock is applied to serial parallel conversion circuits subjecting received, packetized data to serial parallel conversion, and an interface circuit receiving and decoding outputs from the serial-parallel conversion circuits and outputting a command such as ACT to a DRAM core. Furthermore, an internal packet generation circuit uses the internal clock to rapidly generate a testing packet signal. Thus the device's operation can be checked with a low speed tester, without externally receiving a rapid packet signal.
摘要:
In a semiconductor memory device having a spare memory cell array and a spare column decoder and a spare row decoder as redundant circuits, redundancy detecting circuits for testing to see whether the redundant circuits are used or not after completion of the semiconductor memory device as a product are set so as to be capable of providing particular current signals or voltage signals, which indicate that the redundant circuits are used to predetermined external terminals, in response to an output signal at a predetermined logic level from a spare row decoder activating circuit or a spare column decoder activating circuit. When an external address signal is supplied to the semiconductor memory device, a signal at a logic level according to whether the redundant circuits are used or not is automatically latched in the redundancy detecting circuits in response to an output signal of the spare row decoder activating circuit or the spare column decoder activating circuit, so that it becomes unnecessary to set the state of electric connection in the redundancy detecting circuits according to whether the redundant circuits are used or not in manufacture.
摘要:
An address buffer circuit comprises a flip-flop circuit having first and second input nodes and connected between a power-supply potential and a ground potential. In addition, first, second and third transistors are connected in series in that order from the side of the ground between the first input node and the ground potential, to constitute a first input circuit, and fourth, fifth and sixth transistors are connected in series in that order from the side of the ground between the second input node and the ground potential, to constitute a second input circuit. An external address signal is applied to a control terminal of the first transistor, and a reference potential is applied to a control terminal of the fourth transistor. At the time of operating the address buffer circuit, the second and fifth transistors are first turned on, to bring the first and second input circuits into the operating state and then, to bring the flip-flop circuit into the operating state. Thereafter, the third and sixth transistors are turned off, to bring the first and second input circuits into the non-operating state.
摘要:
A dynamic random access memory, which includes a data input buffer, a data input latch circuit, a data output buffer, and a switching circuit. For example, in an operation in a read-write cycle, at first, a data signal to be written is stored in the latch circuit 7 concurrent with inputting of an address signal in response to a signal WE. A data signal read from a memory cell is output via the output buffer in response to a signal OE. The switching circuit is turned on, and the data signal which has been latched is provided to the memory cell via a pair of I/O lines. As a result, the time required for the operation in the read-write cycle is shortened.