摘要:
A novel composite target material that is composed of a rare earth metal and a transition metal (iron-group metal) and which is used in the formation of a thin magnetooptical recording film by sputtering is disclosed. Also disclosed is a process for producing such composite target material.The process comprises the steps of providing a rare earth metal and an iron-group transition metal as separate entities, mixing these metals without alloying, and hot-forming the mixture at a temperature lower than the eutectic point of the system of metallic components in the mixture, thereby forming an intermetallic compound at the interface between the rare earth metal and the transition metal while causing said metals to be bonded together.The target material produced by this process contains 30-50 wt % of the rare earth metal, with the balance being made of the iron-group transition metal and incidental impurities. The structure of the target material is also characterized by the presence of an intermetallic compound phase at the interface between the particles of the rare earth metal and those of the transition metal. This composite target material has sufficiently high density, high strength, high deflective strength and good resistance to thermal shock to permit rotation and inversion during sputtering procedures without cracking. Furthermore, the oxygen content of this target material is no higher than 0.3 wt %. Therefore, a perpendicular magnetization film suitable for use in magnetooptical recording can be readily formed by sputtering the target material of the present invention. As a further advantage, the film deposition rate that can be achieved with this target material is significantly fast in comparison with the conventional alloy target material.
摘要:
A transmission device includes: a communication unit that communicates with a plurality of reception devices; a transmission data setting unit that compares the number of the reception devices as transmission targets of transmission data representing content and a predetermined threshold value and sets the transmission data to be transmitted to the reception devices to each reception device based on a result of the comparison such that a transmission rate for transmission that represents an amount of data transmission necessary to transmit the transmission data to the reception devices does not exceed a reference transmission rate representing an amount of data transmission at which data can be transmitted in the communication, and the transmission data having relatively high reproduction quality is transmitted to the reception devices as the transmission targets; and a transmission processing unit that concurrently transmits the transmission data set by the transmission data setting unit to the corresponding reception devices as the transmission targets.
摘要:
A period pulse corresponding to the shortest information retention time of those of dynamic memory cells is counted to form a refresh address to be assigned to a plurality of word lines. A carry signal outputted from the refresh address counter is divided by a divider. For each of said plurality of word lines assigned with the refresh address, one of a short period corresponding to an output pulse of a timer or a long period corresponding to the divided pulse from the divider is stored in a storage circuit as refresh time setting information. A memory cell refresh operation to be performed by the refresh address is made valid or invalid for each word line according to the refresh time setting information stored in the storage circuit and the refresh time setting information itself is made invalid by the output pulse of the divider.
摘要:
In an electronic circuit system unit having a semiconductor integrated circuit unit on a wafer scale, a semiconductor wafer (a semiconductor integrated circuit unit on a wafer scale) and a print wiring substrate are laid to overlap each other and semiconductor pellets are mounted on the print wiring substrate in the overlapping area of the print wiring substrate and the semiconductor wafer. In said electronic circuit system unit, an area being a part of the periphery of the semiconductor wafer is protruded from the periphery of the print wiring substrate being placed to overlap the semiconductor wafer, and the semiconductor wafer and the print wiring substrate are electrically connected to each other in an area being a part of the protruded part through wires.
摘要:
In LSI circuit devices having a plurality of subchips packaged therein and having specific functions, capacitance cutting buffer circuits are employed in conjunction with respective terminals of the subchips, and a driver is disposed at respective points where relatively long wiring lines are respectively sub-divided into a corresponding plurality of lines. As a result, signal transmission delay can be significantly reduced. The terminals of the subchips are also provided with a probing pad to test the operations of the subchips independently of one another. The subchips employ circuit blocks which are to operate simultaneously and in conjunction with the wirings of the subchips, power supply lines are disposed correspondingly to the distributively arranged circuit blocks. Bus lines also controllably transmit addresses as well as data signals in a time sharing manner. Furthermore, each of the subchips has a fault test circuit. The subchips which have a DC fault is electrically isolated thereby allowing the remainder of the subchip to be usable. In the fault relieving technique employed, a combination of memory locations wherein no fault exists is selected for use, thereby allowing the construction of an LSI even with subchips which correspond to faulty bit addresses. The fault relieving technique employed uses an address converting circuit for faulty addresses, this operation being performed automatically within the chip system.
摘要:
There is provided in connection with a semiconductor memory, such as of the pseudostatic RAM, a layout of the circuit components thereof including a method of testing the memory. There is provided an oscillation circuit which is capable of withstanding bumping of the power source voltage (varying) which effects stabilization regarding the operation of the circuits included therewith including a refresh timer circuit. There is also provided for testing a refresh timer circuit and a semiconductor memory which includes a refresh timer circuit. There is further provided for an output buffer which is capable of high speed operation with respect to memory data readout, a voltage generating circuit which is capable of stable operation and a fuse circuit, such as provided in connection with redundant circuitry in the memory and which is characterized as having a configuration of a fuse logic gate circuit employing complementary channel MOSFETs together with a fuse. With respect to the semiconductor memory, such as the pseudostatic RAM, the initial count of the refresh timer counter circuit of the refresh timer circuit can be set at an optional value by applying a signal to an address input terminal, and a test mode can be effected in which the refresh period can be set at an optional value by accordingly applying a test control signal to a predetermined external terminal. Therefore, the discharge current of the oscillation circuit capacitor associated with the refresh timer circuit becomes stabilized, noting the particular layout arrangement regarding the polycrystalline silicon layer forming the resistor of the oscillation circuit, and the fact that same parasitic capacitances are effectively connected between the polycrystalline silicon resistor and the supply voltage of the circuit and between the polycrystalline silicon resistor and the ground potential of the circuit thereby cancelling any variation of the output of the power source. Therefore, variation of the oscillation frequency of the oscillation circuit attributable to the bumping of the power source can be effectively suppressed.
摘要:
A dynamic RAM is provided with a plurality of 1-MOSFET memory cells, each having a storage capacitor and a switching MOSFET coupled to one electrode of the storage capacitor. The other electrode of each of the storage capacitors is coupled to a switching circuit which controls the voltage which is applied to the capacitor. The switching circuit is, in turn, coupled to both a voltage generating circuit (which preferably provides a voltage of 1/2 Vcc) and a voltage supply circuit which is set to provide predetermined test voltages. Thus, by operating the switching circuit, a voltage of 1/2 Vcc can be applied to the memory cell capacitors during normal operation of the dynamic RAM, and the predetermined test voltages can be applied to the memory cell capacitors during a testing operation.
摘要:
An improved DRAM which includes a plurality of main amplifiers for amplifying and storing signals read out to a plurality of common data lines in accordance with an internal address signal, a main amplifier control circuit for outputting the outputs of the main amplifiers sequentially in synchronism with changes in a column address strobe signal and an address counter for performing an addressing operation midway in the sequential reading operations of the plural main amplifiers. The present invention also includes a column selecting circuit for switching column switches in accordance with the address counter to cause data to be read out continuously at a high speed by extending a nibble mode.
摘要:
Dynamic RAM having memory cells, each of the memory cells having a capacitor with the electrode comprised of a first semiconductor region of a first type of conductivity formed in a substrate of second conductivity type. The first semiconductor region is formed by introducing impurities using a mask comprising (1) a nitride film which is deposited so as to define part of the shape of the capacitor. An oxide film, formed by thermal oxidation of the substrate, defines the shape of the memory cells, and each of the memory cells further have at least a second semiconductor region of a second type of conductivity formed between and under the electrodes, the shape thereof being defined by the nitride film and the oxide film that is formed by thermal oxidation.
摘要:
A dynamic RAM is arranged such that a common data line in each of the non-selected ones of the divided memory arrays is connected to a pair of common source lines of a sense amplifier corresponding to the memory array concerned, whereby the potential of the common data line is set at a medium level which is substantially equal to the potential of the data lines by utilizing the medium potential of the pair of common source lines and a relatively large parasitic capacity thereof, therby maintaining the data lines at the half-precharge level. The pair of common source lines are shorted to each other during the non-select period of the memory arrays, so that the common source lines have a medium level which is substantially equal to the half-precharge level of the data lines.