摘要:
The present invention provides a high speed and low power consumption LSI operable in a wide temperature range in which a MOS transistor having back gates is used specifically according to operating characteristics of a circuit.In the LSI, an FD-SOI structure having an embedded oxide film layer is used and a lower semiconductor region of the embedded oxide film layer is used as a back gate. A voltage for back gates in the logic circuits having a small load in the logic circuit block is controlled in response to activation of the block from outside of the block. Transistors, in which the gate and the back gate are connected to each other, are used for the circuit generating the back gate driving signal, and logic circuits having a heavy load such as circuit block output section, and the back gates are directly controlled according to the gate input signal.
摘要:
A logic circuit in a system LSI is provided with a power switch so as to cut off the switch at the time of standby, reducing leakage current. At the same time, an SRAM circuit of the system LSI controls a substrate bias to reduce leakage current.
摘要:
The semiconductor integrated circuit (1) has a memory (4) and a logic circuit (5), which are mixedly palletized on a silicon substrate (2). The memory includes a partially-depleted type nMOS (6) having an SOI structure and formed on UTB (3). The partially-depleted type nMOS has a backgate region (14) under UTB, to which a voltage can be applied independently of a corresponding gate terminal. The logic circuit includes an nMOS (7) and a pMOS (8), and both are of a fully-depleted type, formed on UTB and have an SOI structure. The fully-depleted type nMOS and pMOS have backgate regions (14, 22) under respective UTBs, to which voltages can be applied independently of the corresponding gate terminals
摘要:
A memory using an SRAM memory cell intended for low-voltage operation is designed to decrease the threshold value of MOS transistors constituting the memory cell without substantial decrease in the static noise margin, which is the operational margin of the memory cell. To this end, a voltage Vdd′ higher than a power supply voltage Vdd of a power supply line for peripheral circuits is supplied from a power supply line for memory cells as a power supply voltage for memory cells. Since the conductance of driver MOS transistors is in-creased, the threshold voltage of the MOS transistors within the memory cells can be reduced without reducing the static noise margin. Further the ratio of width between the driver MOS transistor and a transfer MOS transistor can be set to 1, thereby allowing a reduction in the memory cell area.
摘要:
The present invention is directed to realize high manufacture yield and compensate variations in threshold voltage of a MOS transistor with small overhead. A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a CMOS circuit for processing an input signal in an active mode, a control switch, and a control memory. The control switch supplies a pMOS body bias voltage and an nMOS body bias voltage to an N well in a pMOS transistor and a P well in an nMOS transistor, respectively, in the CMOS circuit. The control memory stores control information indicating whether or not the pMOS body bias voltage and the nMOS body bias voltage are supplied from the control switch to the N well in the pMOS transistor and the P well in the nMOS transistor, respectively, in the CMOS circuit in the active mode.
摘要:
Thresholds of MISFETS of a Full Depletion-type SOI substrate cannot be controlled by changing impurity density as with bulk silicon MISFETs. Therefore, it is difficult to set a suitable threshold for each circuit. According to the semiconductor device of the present invention, gate electrodes of P-channel type MISFETs composing a memory cell are made of N-type polysilicon, gate electrodes of N-channel type MISFETs are made of P-type polysilicon and gate electrodes of P-channel type and N-channel type MISFETs of peripheral circuits and a logic circuit are made of P-type silicon germanium. A suitable threshold can be achieved for each circuit using a SOI substrate, thereby making it possible to fully leverage the characteristics of the SOI substrate.
摘要:
To reduce cost of defect redundancy and trimming in a semiconductor integrated circuit having multiple layer wirings and copper wirings, an address for salvaging a defect of a memory cell array in a semiconductor is stored by using a nonvolatile memory element constituting a floating electrode by a first layer of polysilicon, or the nonvolatile memory element is programmed in testing the semiconductor integrated circuit. As a result, a special process is not needed in forming the nonvolatile memory element. In other words, the nonvolatile memory element can be formed in a process of forming a CMOS device and an apparatus of a laser beam for programming is not needed since the programming is carried out in testing. Thus, the time necessary for programming can be shortened, and, therefore, testing costs can be reduced.
摘要:
The invention provides a semiconductor integrated circuit device provided with an SRAM that satisfies the requirements for both the SNM and the write margin with a low supply voltage. The semiconductor integrated circuit device include: multiple static memory cells provided in correspondence with multiple word lines and multiple complimentary bit lines; multiple memory cell power supply lines that each supply an operational voltage to each of the multiple memory cells connected to the multiple complimentary bit lines each; multiple power supply circuits comprised of resistive units that each supply a power supply voltage to the memory cell power supply lines each; and a pre-charge circuit that supplies a pre-charge voltage corresponding to the power supply voltage to the complimentary bit lines, wherein the memory cell power supply lines are made to have coupling capacitances to thereby transmit a write signal on corresponding complimentary bit lines.
摘要:
To reduce cost of defect redundancy and trimming in a semiconductor integrated circuit having multiple layer wirings and copper wirings, an address for salvaging a defect of a memory cell array in a semiconductor is stored by using a nonvolatile memory element constituting a floating electrode by a first layer of polysilicon, or the nonvolatile memory element is programmed in testing the semiconductor integrated circuit. As a result, a special process is not needed in forming the nonvolatile memory element. In other words, the nonvolatile memory element can be formed in a process of forming a CMOS device and an apparatus of a laser beam for programming is not needed since the programming is carried out in testing. Thus, the time necessary for programming can be shortened, and, therefore, testing costs can be reduced.
摘要:
An SRAM circuit which can be operated at a reduced operation margin, especially at a low operating voltage by increasing or optimizing the operation margin of the SRAM circuit. The threshold voltage of the produced transistor in the SRAM circuit is detected to compare the operating voltage of a memory cell with the operating voltage of a peripheral circuit in order to adjust it to the optimum value, and the substrate bias voltage is further controlled.