摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit according to an example of the present invention includes a chip substrate, first and second switches arranged on the chip substrate in which ON/OFF of an electrical signal path is directly controlled by an optical signal, a first light shielding layer arranged above the chip substrate, an optical waveguide layer arranged on the first light shielding layer, a second light shielding layer arranged on the optical waveguide layer, a reflecting plate arranged in the optical waveguide layer to change an advancing direction of the optical signal, and means for leading the optical signal to the first and second switches from an inside of the optical waveguide layer. The first and second light shielding layers reflect the optical signal, and the optical waveguide layer transmits the optical signal radially.
摘要:
A latch circuit includes first and second inverters connected in a cross-coupling manner at a first node and a second node. A voltage application circuit applies a hot carrier generation voltage for generating hot carrier at a transistor included in the first inverter or the second inverter. An inverting circuit generates an inversion signal as an inverted signal of an amplified signal provided from the latch circuit to the bit line pair to provide the inversion signal to the first node and the second node.
摘要:
An upper-layer metal power standard cell comprises: a basic power metal layer which is disposed in an upper layer of a circuit and which supplies a power voltage from an outside of the upper-layer metal power standard cell; a transistor element layer which is formed in a predetermined arrangement on a circuit substrate under the basic power metal layer; and an inner wire layer which supplies the power voltage to the transistor element layer disposed under the basic power metal layer disposed in the upper layer from the basic power metal layer.
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit is applied to a system using a first power source voltage and a second power source voltage independent of the first power source voltage and that includes a first area to which the first power source voltage is supplied, a thermal sensor placed in the first area, and a first input path placed in the first area, for transferring trimming data that determine the control contents of the thermal sensor to the thermal sensor.
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first delay circuit generating a first delay clock; a second delay circuit generating a second delay clock; a first register registering a value of a first delay of the first delay clock; a second register registering a value of a second delay of the second delay clock; a clock supplying circuit supplying a clock signal to the first and second delay circuits; a phase comparator detecting a phase difference between the first and second delay clocks; and a built-in test circuit configured to control the first and second registers so that the value of the first delay can be registered in the first register and the value of the second delay can be registered in the second register.
摘要:
The facility of operation in a manufacturing process and the reliability of the finished product can be improved by making a design based on two basic wiring pattern layers in which wiring traces are formed with regularity, and a basic via array layer inserted between the two basic wiring pattern layers, in which vias are formed with regularity
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a plurality of flip-flops, each of which has an external input terminal and external output terminal, the flip-flops being cascade-connected by having data output terminals respectively connected to data input terminals of the next-stage flip-flops. A reset signal is input via the external input terminal of the first-stage flip-flop and is sequentially transferred from the external output terminal thereof to the next-stage flip-flops. The reset signal is transferred via a transmission path different from the original data transmission path to reset all of the flip-flops.
摘要:
Disclosed is a protection circuit capable of avoiding breakdown of a gate insulating film of a MOSFET and having an appropriate snap-back voltage in terms of reliability. In order to prevent breakdown of a gate insulating film of a MOSFET constituting a stacked protection circuit caused by application of a surge voltage between the gate and the drain of the MOSFET, a single or a plurality of diodes or a MOSFET switch is connected between the gate and the drain of the MOSFET for absorbing the surge voltage. The particular construction permits obtaining a large surge tolerance against the surge voltage entering through, for example, the external power source pad, making it possible to form a protection circuit used in I/O's tolerant to other power sources having an appropriate snap-back voltage against the external surge in assuring the reliability of the semiconductor device.
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprises: a clock driver for outputting a clock signal; a clock wiring which is driven by the clock driver for transmitting the clock signal; a plurality of logic circuits which are connected to the clock wiring to be synchronously operated in response to the clock signal; and a plurality of delay circuits, each of which is provided between a corresponding one of the logic circuits and the clock wiring for delaying the clock signal, wherein a delay amount of each of the delay circuits is designed so that the delay amounts of the clock signal from the output of the clock driver to the inputs of the logic circuits are equal to each other. Thus, it is possible to reduce clock skew and to evade an increase in layout area.
摘要:
A push-pull output buffer contained in an I/O interface circuit of the present invention comprises a P channel MOSFET and a N channel MOSFET. The P channel MOSFET is connected between an I/O node connected to an external circuit through a transmission path and a first potential node to which a first potential is applied. The N channel MOSFET is connected between a second potential node to which a second potential is applied and the I/O node. On/off status of the P channel MOSFET and N channel MOSFET are controlled depending on an input mode for inputting a signal from an external circuit and an output mode for outputting a signal to the external circuit through a transmission path. In this I/O interface circuit, the first and second potentials are terminating potentials, and when input mode is selected, out of the P channel MOSFET and N channel MOSFET, the MOSFET connected to a potential node to which a terminating potential is applied is controlled to be always on.