摘要:
In response to an external control signal, a first timing detecting circuit and a high voltage detecting circuit detect setting of a signature mode and provide a signature mode signal to a second timing detecting circuit. The second timing detecting circuit outputs an output buffer activating signal to the output buffer in response to the external control signal. In response to the output buffer activating signal, the output buffer detects an internal supply voltage and provides the same to an external pin.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device has adjacent memory arrays and isolation transistors disposed between a common bit sense amplifier and the memory arrays. An isolation control circuit according the present invention generates the power supply voltage Vcc (not the boost voltage Vpp) during the burn-in mode of operation, so that the gate oxide layer of the isolation transistors is prevented from being destroyed or deteriorated.
摘要:
A power supply system incorporated in a dynamic random access memory device distributes a step-down power voltage and a boosted voltage to a sense amplifier unit and a word line driver for allowing switching transistors of the memory cells to transfer the step-down voltage level to the storage capacitor without any voltage drop in read-out and write-in modes, and the switching transistors and the storage capacitors are subjected to inspections through a burn-in testing process before delivery from the manufacturing factory so as to actualize potential failure; however, either switching transistors or storage capacitors are insufficiently stressed in the burn-in testing process, and the power supply system changes the ratio of the boosted voltage to the step-down power voltage between the read-out and write-in modes and the burn-in testing process so that the switching transistors and the storage capacitors are sufficiently stressed.
摘要:
A dynamic random access memory according to the present invention comprises a plurality of dynamic memory cells arranged in rows and columns, a word line connected to the memory cells on the same row, a bit line connected to the memory cells on the same column, a word line selecting circuit having a word line selecting function of selecting an arbitrary one of the rows in response to an internal address signal, a word line driving voltage source, a word line driving circuit having at least one driving MOS transistor connected between the word line driving voltage source and the word line, for driving the word line in response to an output signal of the word line selecting circuit, and a control circuit for, in response to a voltage stress test control signal input from outside, controlling the word line driving circuit so that the word line driving circuit drives word lines more than those selected in a normal operation mode upon receiving an external address signal.
摘要:
SRAM comprises a word line driving circuit selecting a predetermined number of word lines in accordance with an input address at the time of a normal operation, and simultaneously selecting all word lines or word lines, which are more than the number of word lines to be selected at the time of the normal operation, at the time of a voltage stress applying test, and a bit line load circuit applying a predetermined bias voltage to said pair of bit lines at the time of the normal operation, and controlling the bias voltage not to be applied to at least one of said pair of bit lines or applying the bias voltage, which is lower than the bias voltage at the time of the normal operation, at the time of the voltage stress test.
摘要:
A circuit for carrying out ordinary "write" and "read" operation during operation of applying a test voltage to a cell opposite electrode in test operation is provided. The circuit converts a test mode instruction signal to an ordinary operation instruction signal in a semiconductor memory device. The test mode instruction signal can be applied to an input pin of the semiconductor memory device, so that the test operation can be carried out even after the assembly of the semiconductor memory device.
摘要:
A test mode input detection circuit for a semiconductor device comprises a first circuit including a group of transistors and a load element, the transistors and load element being connected in series between a power source and an input terminal, a node between the transistor group and the load element forming an output terminal of the first circuit; a second circuit including a transistor whose gate receives an output from the output terminal of the first circuit, and a transistor whose gate receives a power source voltage, these transistors being connected in series between the power source and a ground, a node between the transistors forming an output terminal of the second circuit; and an inverter circuit for providing a test mode signal in response to an output of the second circuit.
摘要:
This invention provides a non-volatile semiconductor memory having a first node and a second node, the second node having a ground potential. The invention includes a plurality of non-volatile memory cells each having a drain and a threshold potential, the cells, for storing data written into the cells at a predetermined normal writing voltage. A plurality of bit lines, each memory cell being connected to one of the bit lines, transfer data to and from the memory cells. A circuit connected to the bit lines simultaneously tests the memory cells of all the bit lines at the normal writing voltage to detect changes in the threshold potential.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device comprises an internal circuit including a memory circuit; a test pattern generating circuit; an element for receiving external signals supplied from the outside; and an input switching circuit connected between the test pattern generating circuit and the receiving element, for switching the input supplied to the internal circuit between output signals generating from the test pattern generating circuit and the external signals, the output signals generated from the test pattern generated circuit being input to the internal circuit through the input switching circuit in a test mode, the external signals being input to the internal circuit through the input switching circuit in a usual mode; the test pattern generating circuit, the input switching circuit, and the internal circuit being provided on the same chip.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, a plurality of bit lines, each coupled to the memory cells forming one column, and a MOS transistor connected between a power supply terminal and one end of every bit line. The device further includes at least one test memory cell coupled in series with the MOS transistor, thus forming a series circuit connected between the power supply terminal and the ground.