摘要:
In a semiconductor memory device comprising a plurality of memory cells which are arranged on a cell area defined by a first number of column signal lines and a second number of row signal lines, a row decoder produces a row selection signal through one of the second number of row signal lines. A serial access section includes a data register and serially accesses a part of the plurality of memory cells arranged along the one end of the second number of row signal lines. The plurality of memory cells are divided into a plurality of cell blocks. The data register is divided into a plurality of subword data registers each of which corresponds to each of the plurality of cell blocks. The serial access section accesses the plurality of cell blocks, in order, at a predetermined interval. Each of the plurality of subword data registers stores subword data in each of the plurality of cell blocks, in order, at the predetermined interval.
摘要:
A data processing system includes a video random access memory with a serial register having a serial register tap addressing arrangement wherein tap addresses are decoded from column address factors and are applied to data gates associated stages of the serial register accessing data from the serial register stages. A decoder responds to a code word and generates a stages select signal that controls the data gates between the serial register stages and data lines. A plurality of code word gates, interposed in the decoder inputs and responsive to a control pulse, enable the stages select signal only while the control pulse is active. By thus limiting the decoder input to pulsed code words, sequential bit interference and inadvertent bit overwriting are avoided. An equalizer circuit, connected with each data line, equalizes the potential on the data lines before the accessed data bit is applied to the selected data line.
摘要:
Signals are simultaneously read out from a plurality of memory cells connected to one selected word line onto respective data lines. By successively making a selection out of data lines, signals read simultaneously onto respective data lines are serially and successively sensed by means of one signal sensing means. As for restoring operation as well, restoring is successively performed via the signal transferring means on the basis of the result sensed by the signal sensing means. By thus making a plurality of data lines share either signal sensing means or both signal sensing means and restoring means, the number of these means can be reduced and the layout pitch of these means can be relaxed. Therefore, a semiconductor memory having a higher density can be realized.
摘要:
In a semiconductor memory having a column-direction serial access function, two systems of circuits for selecting and fetching data are provided. A circuit operation is alternately performed such that one system is set up while the other system is accessed, thereby reducing a cycle time for a data selecting/fetching operation.
摘要:
A memory system for the transfer of a block of data, wherein the transfer of data can begin at a starting address anywhere within the block. The block is stored on two memory chips, each having multiple parallel outputs. The two chips are addressed by a common high order address bus and different low order address bus. The low order addresses are generated such that an ordered sequence of bits, beginning at the starting address, is transferred in parallel to the register from both chips, regardless of the starting address.
摘要:
A digital memory system employing a rectangular array of known MNOS variable threshold insulated gate field effect transistor memory cells is actuated by auxiliary cirucits which provide a four-phase operating sequence. The memory cells are arranged in word rows in which the gate electrodes of all memory cells in a given row are connected together and in bit columns having common source and common drain connections. Individual memory cells are selected by means of word-line and bit-column decoders. Each decoder includes a NOR gate matrix for selecting a given word row or bit column and a dual transistor network which superposes static and dynamic voltages on the output line of the decoder so as to increase speed and stability. The wordline decoder operates through a buffer circuit which performs code inversion and clamps all non-addressed word lines to substrate potential during switching transients. During the four-phase operating sequence, information in each memory cell in an addressed word line is read into a bit storage register wherein individual flip-flops are switched in accordance with the value of the particular bit of information. While information is temporarily stored in the bit register, each addressed memory cell is preset to a large negative threshold level and then cleared so as to be capable of retreiving information from the bit storage register during the fourth phase of the operating sequence. An input/output circuit provides means for updating the information in the bit storage register during the time that the information is temporarily stored therein or of supplying the temporarily stored information to external circuitry.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device is provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a column selection circuit, a sensing circuit, an output circuit, and a verification circuit. The column selection circuit selects n-bit data from data read from a memory cell array according to a column selection signal and outputs the selected n-bit data to an n-bit data bus. The sensing circuit senses the n-bit data on the data bus in response to an activation signal. The output circuit selects m-bit data from the n-bit data sensed by the sensing circuit in response to an internal clock signal synchronized with a serial clock signal applied from outside and outputs the selected m-bit data from output terminals. The verification circuit compares the data sensed by the sensing circuit with the data output by the output circuit to verifying the correctness of read-out data.
摘要:
A circuit includes a serializer configured to receive a non-serialized input signal having a first bit-width and generate a plurality of serialized input signals each having a second bit-width. A memory array is configured to receive each of the plurality of serialized input signals. The memory array is further configured to generate a plurality of serialized output signals. A de-serializer is configured to receive the plurality of serialized output signals and generate a non-serialized output signal. The plurality of serialized output signals each have a bit-width equal to second bit-width and the non-serialized output signal has a bit-width equal to the first bit-width.
摘要:
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to shifting data. A number of embodiments include an apparatus comprising pre-charge lines and n-channel transistors without complementary p-channel transistors. A number of embodiments include a method comprising shifting data by pre-charging nodes with an operating voltage.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment is provided with a plurality of first latch circuits that latch setting-data at different timings, a plurality of hold circuits provided corresponding to the respective plurality of first latch circuits, each holding data latched by the corresponding first latch circuit, and an address decoder that decodes an address that specifies a destination to hold data. Each of the plurality of hold circuits has one or more holding parts that hold data latched by the corresponding first latch circuit based on a decode signal decoded by the address decoder.