摘要:
Disclosed is a semiconductor device including a first clock generator that generates a first clock signal having a first period from an input clock signal, a second clock generator that generates a second clock signal having a second period from the input clock signal, and a timing generator that receives the first clock signal, the second clock signal, an activation signal from a command decoder and a selection signal for selecting the delay time from a timing register to produce a timing signal delayed as from activation of the activation signal by a delay equal to a sum of a time equal to a preset number m prescribed by the selection signal times the first period and a time equal to another preset number n prescribed by the selection signal times the second period. The timing register holds the values of m and n. These values are set in the timing register in an initialization sequence at the time of a mode register set command. In the operating states, the timing signals are output from the timing generator at a desired timing based on the information stored in the timing register (FIG. 6).
摘要:
A sense amplifier is constructed to reduce the occurrence of malfunctions in a memory read operation, and thus degraded chip yield, due to increased offset of the sense amplifier with further sealing down. The sense amplifier circuit is constructed with a plurality of pull-down circuits and a pull-up circuit, and a transistor in one of the plurality of pull-down circuits has a constant such as a channel length or a channel width larger than that of a transistor in another pulldown circuit. The pull-down circuit with a larger constant of a transistor is first activated, and then, the other pull-down circuit and the pull-up circuit are activated to perform the read operation.
摘要:
When the miniaturization of a DRAM advances, the capacity of a cell capacitor decreases, and further the voltage of a data line is lowered, the amount of read signals remarkably lowers, errors are produced during readout, and the yield of chips lowers. To solve the above problems, the present invention provides a DRAM that: has an error correcting code circuit for each sub-array; detects and corrects errors with said error correcting code circuit in both the reading and writing operations; and further has rescue circuits in addition to said error correcting code circuits and replaces a defective cell caused by hard error with a redundant bit.
摘要:
A sense amplifier is constructed to reduce the occurrence of malfunctions in a memory read operation, and thus degraded chip yield, due to increased offset of the sense amplifier with further sealing down. The sense amplifier circuit is constructed with a plurality of pull-down circuits and a pull-up circuit, and a transistor in one of the plurality of pull-down circuits has a constant such as a channel length or a channel width larger than that of a transistor in another pull-down circuit. The pull-down circuit with a larger constant of a transistor is first activated, and then, the other pull-down circuit and the pull-up circuit are activated to perform the read operation.
摘要:
Disclosed is a timing control circuit that receives a first clock having a period T1, a group of second clocks of L different phases spaced apart from each other at substantially equal intervals and selection signals m, n supplied thereto and generates a fine timing signal delayed from the rising edge of the first clock signal by a delay td of approximately td=m·T1+n·(T2/L). The timing control circuit includes a coarse delay circuit and a fine delay circuit. The coarse delay circuit includes a counter for counting a rising edge of the first clock signal after an activate signal is activated and generates a coarse timing signal whose amount of delay from the first clock signal is approximately m·T1. The fine delay circuit comprises L-number of multiphase clock control delay circuits disposed in parallel, delays by n·T2/L the timing of sampling of the coarse timing signal by respective clocks of the group of L-phase second clocks, and takes the OR among the resulting delayed pulses to thereby produce the fine timing signal.
摘要:
A timing control circuit DLY1 receives clock signal CKa with period T1 and activation signal ACT and outputs fine timing signal FT with delay of m*T1+tda measured from the clock signal where m denotes a non-negative integer and tda denotes delay in the analog delay element. The timing control circuit DLY1 comprises a coarse delay circuit CD and a fine delay circuit FD. The coarse delay circuit CD comprises a counter for counting a rising edge of the clock signal CKa after receiving activation signal ACT and outputs coarse timing signal CT with delay of m*T1 measured from a rising edge of the clock signal CKa. The fine delay circuit FD comprises a plurality of analog delay elements and outputs fine delay timing signal FT with delay of tda measured from the coarse timing signal CT. Variation in delay of timing signal is reduced.
摘要:
A substrate voltage control technique that prevents the operating speed from being decreased and suppresses a leakage current due to a lower threshold voltage with respect to a low voltage use. Since a center value of the threshold voltages is detected by plural replica MOS transistors, and a substrate voltage is controlled to control a center value of the threshold voltages, thereby making it possible to satisfy a lower limit of the operating speed and an upper limit of a leakage current of the entire chip. On the other hand, the substrate voltage is dynamically controlled during the operation of the chip, thereby making it possible to decrease the center value of the threshold voltages when the chip operates to improve the speed, and to increase the center value of the threshold voltages after the operation of the chip to reduce the leakage current of the entire chip.
摘要:
Due to the further scaling down, the offset of the sense amplifier is increased and the malfunction occurs in the read operation, and thus, the yield of the chip is degraded. For its prevention, a plurality of pull-down circuits and one pull-up circuit are used to constitute the sense amplifier circuit. Also, the transistor in one of the plurality of pull-down circuits has a constant such as a channel length or a channel width larger than that of the transistor in the other pull-down circuit. Further, the pull-down circuit with a larger constant of the transistor is first activated, and then, the other pull-down circuit and the pull-up circuit are activated to perform the read operation.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device having high integration, low power consumption and high operation speed. The memory device includes a sense amplifier circuit having plural pull-down circuits and a pull-up circuit. A transistor constituting one of the plural pull-down circuits has a larger constant than that of a transistor constituting the other pull-down circuits, for example, a channel length and a channel width. The pull-down circuit having the larger constant transistor is activated earlier than the other pull-down circuits and the pull-up circuit, which are activated to conduct reading. The data line and the earlier driven pull-down circuit are connected by an NMOS transistor and the NMOS transistor is activated or inactivated to control the activation or inactivation of the pull-down circuit.
摘要:
A sense amplifier is constructed to reduce the occurrence of malfunctions in a memory read operation, and thus degraded chip yield, due to increased offset of the sense amplifier with further sealing down. The sense amplifier circuit is constructed with a plurality of pull-down circuits and a pull-up circuit, and a transistor in one of the plurality of pull-down circuits has a constant such as a channel length or a channel width larger than that of a transistor in another pull-down circuit. The pull-down circuit with a larger constant of a transistor is first activated, and then, the other pull-down circuit and the pull-up circuit are activated to perform the read operation.