Abstract:
The bit-line sense amplifier includes a driving-voltage control circuit and an amplifier. The driving-voltage control circuit generates a first test driving voltage having a voltage level of a pre-charge voltage, a second test driving voltage having a voltage level of a pre-charge voltage added by a voltage difference between a bit-line and a complementary bit-line, and a third test driving voltage having a voltage level of a pre-charge voltage subtracted by the voltage difference in a test mode. The amplifier senses and amplifies a voltage difference between the bit-line and the complementary bit-line.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of controlling a deep power down mode in a multi-port semiconductor memory having a plurality of ports connected to a plurality of processors. Control of the deep power down mode in the multi-port semiconductor memory is performed such that activation/deactivation of the deep power down mode are determined in accordance with signals applied through various ports in the plurality of ports.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a first substrate including at least one first well region and first impurity regions on portions of the substrate and a bias voltage plate on a surface of the substrate. A semiconductor device may be of a three dimensional stack structure, and in example embodiments, the semiconductor device may further include a through contact plug substantially perpendicularly penetrating at least one substrate and at least one bias voltage plate. Therefore, a design margin of a semiconductor device may be enhanced and a bias voltage may be provided reliably.
Abstract:
A memory system including a memory controller and a memory and a related method are disclosed. The method includes communicating a command and error detection/correction (EDC) data associated with the command from the memory controller to the memory, decoding the command and executing an EDC operation related to the EDC data in parallel, and if the command is a write command, delaying execution of a write operation indicated by the write command until completion of the EDC operation, else immediately executing an operation indicated by the command without regard to completion of the EDC operation.
Abstract:
A semiconductor memory device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a memory cell array, a clock signal generator configured to receive an external clock signal from the outside of the memory device and output an internal clock signal, and a data output unit configured to receive an internal data signal from the memory cell array and output a read data signal in response to the internal clock signal. The semiconductor memory device also includes a read data strobe unit configured to output a read data strobe signal having a cycle time of n times (n is an integer equal to or more than 2) a cycle time of the internal clock signal, based on the internal clock signal.
Abstract:
A system having a transmission unit transmitting an output data signal formed from output data and related error detection code and a corresponding receiving unit. The output data signal is pre-emphasized by a pre-emphasis driver in the transmission unit. The receiving unit includes an equalizer equalizing the received output data signal and an error detector analyzing the error detection code to determine whether a bit error is present in the received data. Upon successive data transmission failures either an equalization coefficient in the equalizer or a pre-emphasis coefficient in the pre-emphasis driver are changed.
Abstract:
In a communication system, data is selectively transmitted using single-ended or differential signaling. The data is transmitted in relation to a plurality of clock signals having different relative phases. When the data is transmitted using single-ended signaling, data on adjacent signal lines undergo logic transitions at different times in relation to the plurality of clock signals.
Abstract:
A semiconductor memory device includes a stacked plurality of interposer chips, each interposer chip seating a smaller corresponding memory chip, wherein a lowermost interposer chip in the stacked plurality of interposer chips is mounted on a buffer chip. Each one of the stacked plurality of interposer chips includes a central portion having bond pads seating the corresponding memory device and a peripheral portion having a plurality of through silicon vias (TSVs). The respective pluralities of TSVs for adjacent interposer chips in the stacked plurality of interposer chips are connected via vertical connection elements to form multiple internal signal paths communicating write data from and read data to the buffer chip from respective memory chips.
Abstract:
A semiconductor memory module includes a memory module board having at least one semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes a data input buffer that receives data and a first reference voltage via first and second input terminals, a command/address buffer that receives a command/address signal and a second reference voltage via first and second input terminals, and a first termination resistor unit connected to the first input terminal of the data input buffer. The semiconductor memory module further includes a second termination resistor unit located on the memory module board and connected to an internal command/address bus. The first termination resistor unit includes a first resistor connected between a first voltage source and the first input terminal of the data input buffer, and the second termination resistor unit includes a second resistor connected between a second voltage source and the first input terminal of the command/address input buffer.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an apparatus including a stacked plurality of devices and a related method. The apparatus includes a stacked plurality of devices including a master device and at least one secondary device; a plurality of segments, each segment being associated with one of the stacked plurality of devices; and a plurality of N vertical connection paths traversing the stacked plurality of devices. The apparatus further includes a plurality of M vertical signal paths configured from the plurality of N vertical connections paths, wherein M is less than N, and at least one of the plurality of M vertical signal paths is a merged vertical signal path adaptively configured by the master device using at least one segment from each one of at least two of the plurality of N vertical connection paths.