Abstract:
A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising a plurality of vertical static induction transistors (SITs) of normally-off type formed in a common semiconductor substrate in such a manner that the lateral dimension of the channel region of the SITs employed to form a hardware circuit region such as a logic circuit is designed greater than of the SITs which are employed to form a peripheral circuit region. Thus, it is possible to provide a semiconductor integrated circuit which concurrently satisfies a plurality of differently functioning semiconductor circuit requirements to exhibit different electric characteristics as represented by a high-speed operation and a high breakdown voltage.
Abstract:
A method of making a semiconductor integrated circuit on a semiconductor substrate containing thereon an SIT and an IG(MOS) FET or an SIT and C-MOS FETs, comprises a series of steps of making these functional semiconductor devices many of which steps are rendered to be common to the SIT and the FET. The gate region of said IG(MOS) FET is formed as a semiconductor gate layer which typically is made of polycrystalline silicon, and an active semiconductor area of said IG(MOS) FET is formed by using this semiconductor gate layer as the mask therefor.
Abstract:
An integrated logic circuit arrangement comprising: an input junction field effect transistor having at least one source for receiving a digital input signal, a drain to which a load is connected, and gate held at a reference potential, said junction field effect transistor being operative to effect switching operation in accordance with said digital input signal; and an output bipolar type transistor having its base connected to said drain to effect switching operation in accordance with an output signal delivered from said drain. This integrated logic circuit arrangement provides high speed logic operation, low power dissipation and high integration density.
Abstract:
In a semiconductor device of the type arranged so that the minority carriers are injected into a lightly-doped n type semiconductor layer from a heavily-doped p type semiconductor layer provided in the n type layer, that portion of the p type layer excluding a certain portion is separated from the n type layer by a separator layer to cause the p type layer to contact the n type layer only at the certain portion, whereby the carrier injection is restricted to occur within a limited region of the n type layer contacting the certain portion of the p type layer. The separator and the p type layer are formed, by relying on a self-alignment technique using a double-mask layer, as diffused regions partially overlapping each other with a good relative alignment in the n type layer.
Abstract:
An absolute displacement detector utilizing two sensors and a code bearing track having domains arranged such that relative movement between the sensors and the track produces two signals in phase quadrature which are processed with digital circuitry to provide displacement data indicated by a multiple bit digital word whose higher bits indicate number of domains passed and whose lower bits indicate position within a domain.
Abstract:
A reference frequency generator for a tuning apparatus comprising a variable frequency divider which frequency divides a source signal in accordance with frequency division data stored in one or more ROM's. The frequency division data comprises note data for specifying frequencies of respective notes in one octave of a musical scale, pitch deviation data for specifying pitch deviation of the respective notes in one octave with respect to the frequencies specified by said note data and tuning curve data for specifying tuning characeristics covering several octaves, so that the generator generates reference frequency signals representing various pitch deviations and tuning characteristics as well as a standard tuning pitch or characteristic.
Abstract:
In an integrated injection logic (IIL) type semiconductor integrated circuit, an injector transistor is formed with a field effect transistor (FET) and an inverter transistor is formed with a bipolar transistor (BPT). The drain region of the FET is merged into the base region of the BPT. The base of the BPT constitutes a logic input and the collector of the BPT constitutes a logic output. The FET may be either of the junction type or of the insulated gate type. The carrier injection efficiency can be improved to approximately unity over a wide range of the injection current.
Abstract:
A semiconductor integrated circuit comprises a pair of load transistors and a pair of inverter transistors to constitute a flip-flop circuit. The load transistors are formed of p-channel field effect transistors serving as carrier injectors for the inverters formed of npn bipolar transistors. The p-type drain region of each load transistor is merged into the p-type base region of each inverter transistor. The absence of carrier storage effect in the field effect transistors improves the operation speed of the flip-flop remarkably and the high impedance gate electrode can be utilized as the clocking electrode to achieve clocking with voltage pulses without substantial power consumption. A plurality of such flip-flops are connected in cascode one after another to constitute a shift register.
Abstract:
A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprises a semiconductor chip with a plurality of standard cells formed thereon. Each of said standard cells consists of at least one type of standard cell which is selected from among a plural types of standard cells which are pre-registered in a standard cell library retained by a computer. The placement and routing pattern of said standard cells on said semiconductor chip are designed automatically by a computer system. In relation to at least one of said standard cells, at least one basic cell for general-purpose logical gate is formed on said semiconductor chip to deal with design modification of the device.
Abstract:
A magnetoresistive detection head for detecting relative displacement of a magnetic recording medium relative to the detection head includes two sets of magnetoresistive elements which change their respective resistances in response to changes in the intensity of a magnetic field generated by the magnetic recording medium during the relative displacement. The magnetoresistive elements are overlapped and spaced relative to each other by a specified space lag in the direction of the relative displacement. One set of magnetoresistive elements produce a sine output and the other a cosine output. The overlapping and precise spacing of the elements aligns the phases of the signal envelopes of the sine and cosine outputs, reducing reading errors when physical warps appear on the magnetic recording medium.