摘要:
A method for accessing a cache memory which facilitates incremental and store requests off an applied base address request increases the bandwidth of cache via the use of an internal address generation facility built into the memory's decoding circuitry. The introduction of an internal address generation facility simplifies extraneous control of typical requesters built into a memory system. The method also reduces power consumed by requests which exploit the memory's internal address generation facility. Power consumption is further reduced in a set associative cache memory system by enabling one set of sense amplifiers during an incremental fetch.
摘要:
A circuit for bidirectionally exchanging data includes a plurality of entities electrically connected therebetween by a bus, the plurality of entities for sending and receiving data to each other. An at least one swapper circuit is electrically connected to the bus at a connection point between the plurality of entities. The at least one swapper circuit includes circuitry for timing data transfer between a send data mode and a receive data mode and sending and receiving data during the respective modes. The at least one swapper circuit includes a routing device for receiving data simultaneously from the plurality of entities and then sending data simultaneously to the plurality of entities without colliding data.
摘要:
A semiconductor chip structure includes a substrate, at least one thermal conductor embedded within the semiconductor chip structure, the thermal conductor providing electrical insulation and a plurality of devices formed within the structure adjacent to the at least one thermal conductor such that during operation heat produced in the devices is transferred into and through the at least one thermal conductor to reduce an operating temperature of the devices. This structure is particularly useful in silicon-on insulator devices. A method of forming embedded thermal conductors in a semiconductor chip includes the steps of providing a substrate having an oxide layer formed thereon, etching trenches into the oxide layer, depositing diamond to fill the trenches to form thermal conductors contacting the substrate and forming devices and contacts adjacent to the thermal conductors for providing heat flow paths to reduce an operating temperature of the devices.
摘要:
A write circuit for an MJJ-based memory circuit includes first and second current sources configured to generate first and second currents, respectively. The first current imparting an easy axis magnetic field component on an MJJ in a selected memory cell during a write operation. The second current inducing a third current in the selected memory cell that passes through the MJJ, the third current being a seed current for setting a π-state current of the MJJ in a superconducting loop of the selected memory cell. The first current source is configured such that, during the write operation, the MJJ cell transitions: (i) from a π-state, in which a clockwise or counter-clockwise current circulates in the superconducting loop, to a zero-state, in which no current circulates in the superconducting loop, back to the π-state; or (ii) from the zero-state to the π-state; or (iii) from the π-state to the zero-state.
摘要:
One embodiment describes a superconducting cell array logic circuit system. The system includes a plurality of superconducting cells arranged in an array of at least one row and at least one column. The superconducting cell array logic circuit system can be configured to implement a logic operation on at least one logic input signal received at at least one respective input associated with the respective at least one row to provide at least one logic output signal on at least one respective output associated with the at least one column based on a predetermined selective coupling of the at least one input to the at least one output via the plurality of superconducting cells.
摘要:
One embodiment describes a JMRAM memory cell system. The system includes a phase hysteretic magnetic Josephson junction (PHMJJ) that stores one of a first binary state and a second binary state in response to a write current provided during a data write operation and to provide a superconducting phase based on the stored digital state. The system also includes a directional write element configured to provide a directional bias current during the data write operation to provide the superconducting phase of the PHMJJ in a predetermined direction corresponding to the first binary state. The system further includes at least one Josephson junction having a critical current that is based on the superconducting phase of the PHMJJ and being configured to provide an output corresponding to the stored digital state in response to a read current that is provided during a read operation.
摘要:
A test circuit for detecting a leakage defect in a circuit under test includes a test stimulus circuit operative to drive an otherwise defect-free, characteristically capacitive node in the circuit under test to a prescribed voltage level, and an observation circuit having at least one threshold and adapted for connection with at least one node in the circuit under test. The observation circuit is operative to detect a voltage level of the node in the circuit under test and to generate an output signal indicative of whether the voltage level of the node is less than the threshold. The voltage level of the node being less than the threshold is indicative of a first type of leakage defect, and the voltage level of the node being greater than the threshold is indicative of a second type of leakage defect.
摘要:
A system and method for the superimposition of differential signals on binary signals in a memory system. The technique can be performed on busses, and in many kinds of storage media. It can be accomplished in many ways depending on the noise that is to be tolerated, and depending on the sophistication of the encoding means.
摘要:
A vertical ferroelectric gate field-effect transistor (FeGFET) device comprises a substrate and a first drain/source electrode formed on an upper surface of the substrate. An electrically conductive channel region is formed on an upper surface of the first drain/source electrode and electrically contacting the first drain/source electrode. The FeGFET device further comprises a ferroelectric gate region formed on at least one side wall of the channel region, at least one gate electrode electrically contacting the ferroelectric gate region, and a second drain/source electrode formed on an upper surface of the channel region and electrically contacting the channel region. The ferroelectric gate region is selectively polarizable in response to a potential applied between the gate electrode and at least one of the first and second drain/source electrodes. A non-volatile memory array can be formed comprising a plurality of FeGFET devices.
摘要:
A circuit for bidirectionally exchanging data includes a plurality of entities electrically connected therebetween by a bus, the plurality of entities for sending and receiving data to each other. An at least one swapper circuit is electrically connected to the bus at a connection point between the plurality of entities. The at least one swapper circuit includes means for timing data transfer between a send data mode and a receive data mode and sending and receiving data during the respective modes. The at least one swapper circuit includes a routing means for receiving data simultaneously from the plurality of entities and then sending data simultaneously to the plurality of entities without colliding data.