摘要:
A column select line includes a first layer column select line and a second layer column select line formed above the first layer column select line and connected thereto at any point. Furthermore, clamping circuits each for clamping each word line of paired main word lines at a constant potential are provided in a semiconductor memory device having main and secondary word line structure. With such a structure, malfunction due to multiselection of memory cells can be avoided even when the column select line or the paired main word lines is disconnected.
摘要:
A potential generating circuit includes at least a pair of MOS transistors each of which is diode-connected and series connected between an output node and a given potential node and disposed in same forward direction. Each MOS transistor has its back gate and a gate interconnected. A capacitor is coupled between a connection node of the pair of MOS transistors and an input node to which an alternating signal is inputted.
摘要:
A power-on reset circuit for generating a power-on reset signal includes a capacitor which is charged in response to the application of an external power supply potential to an internal circuit. The capacitor is discharged through a diode-connected MOS transistor having its back gate and gate connected together, to prevent malfunction of the POR circuit when the external power supply potential is reapplied.
摘要:
A substrate bias potential generator for biasing a semiconductor substrate to a predetermined potential includes first and second substrate bias generating circuits which operate alternatively according to the potential of the substrate, whereby consumption of power in the substrate bias potential generator is reduced. The alternative operation of the bias generating circuits each activated by a pulse signal train is performed by using a first insulated gate transistor having a gate electrode connected to the semiconductor substrate, a second insulated gate transistor having a gate electrode for receiving the reference potential, an amplifier for differentially amplifying outputs of the first and second insulated gate transistors, an insulated gate transistor for charging an output of the amplifier to a predetermined potential when the amplifier is activated, and a circuit for transmitting the output of the differential amplifier to the first and second bias potential generating circuits. The differential amplifier is activated in response to an activation signal of a pulse train whereby an activation signal corresponding to the pulse train is transmitted to either substrate bias potential generating circuit.
摘要:
In a semiconductor memory device comprising a plurality of memory cells, a test request detection circuit responds to a voltage, on an input terminal, higher than a range of voltages supplied under ordinary operation condition for producing a test signal. Responsive to the test signal, data which has been supplied to the semiconductor memory device are simultaneously written into a plurality of memory cells, and data are simultaneously read from a plurality of memory cells, and judgement is made as to whether or not the data from the memory cells coincide with the data originally supplied to the semiconductor memory device.
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit is provided with an internal voltage generator to normally operate with internal source voltage which is lower than externally supplied source voltage and serves as operating source voltage. The semiconductor integrated circuit is further provided with a control circuit for controlling an internal source voltage generator so that voltage generated by the internal source voltage generator in burn-in or the like serves as first voltage which is higher than normal internal source voltage to accelerate the burn-in.
摘要:
A substrate potential generating circuit for a semiconductor integrated circuit in which, in addition to a conventional circuit for supplying a bias current to the substrate, at least two additional bias current supplying circuits are provided. With this configuration, when the substrate potential reaches its final level, the substrate bias current from the conventional circuit is interrupted to reduce the power consumption of the integrated circuit.
摘要:
An output circuit for a semiconductor integrated circuit is improved by reverse biasing the gates of non-selected output field effect transistors (MOSTs). A control MOST, when actuated by a chip-select signal, connects the gate of its associated output MOST with a negative voltage so that the non-selected output MOSTs are completely cut off. The invention avoids the problem which arises with the use of very short channel output MOSTs such that the channel cannot be completely cut off if a zero bias is applied to the gate.
摘要:
An object is to enhance the driving capability and improve the operating speed of a unit shift register applicable to a scanning line driving circuit having a partial display function. A unit shift register forming a gate line driving circuit includes a first transistor that supplies a first clock signal to a first output terminal, a second transistor that supplies a second clock signal to a second output terminal, a third transistor that charges the gate of the first transistor in response to activation of a shift signal of the previous stage, and a fourth transistor connected between the gate of the first transistor and the gate of the second transistor. The first clock signal and the second clock signal have the same phase, and only the second clock signal is activated in a particular period (a display ineffective period).
摘要:
An electro-optical device is configured to be capable of using a region of a gate line drive circuit efficiently and preventing rising speed of a gate line selection signal from decreasing (rising delay), and a shift register circuit is composed of a single conductivity type transistor which is suitable for the device. The gate line drive circuit including an odd driver to drive odd rows of a plurality of gate lines, and an even driver to drive even rows thereof. Each unit shift register in the odd and even drivers receives a selection signal in the second previous row and activates its own selection signal two horizontal periods later. A start pulse of the even driver is delayed in phase by one horizontal period with respect to a start pulse of the odd driver.