摘要:
A circuit technique suitable to attain a high speed of a memory which is constructed in a manner such that memory cells include a field effect transistor and peripheral circuits include a bipolar transistor and a field effect transistor. According to the invention, a bipolar transistor whose collector is connected to a differential amplifier and which supplies a current to the differential amplifier in accordance with a signal which is inputted to a base or an emitter is added, and a bipolar transistor to supply a current only when writing to bit lines is connected. According to the invention, a high speed of the access time when information is read out by switching the selection bit line is accomplished. Further, the charge/discharge time of the bit line when information is written is reduced and a high speed of the writing time can be also accomplished. The improvement of the drivers of word lines and bit lines is also disclosed and a semiconductor memory which can operate at a high speed as a whole semiconductor memory can be realized.
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit device including a level conversion circuit in which the simplifying of the circuit and the increasing of the speed of operation have been attained is provided.A pair of complementary output signals amplified to a required signal level by a current switch circuit including differential transistors which receive an input signal and a reference voltage are inputted into a pair of emitter follower circuits. An emitter follower output transistor is driven by an output signal from one emitter follower circuit, while an N-channel MOSFET provided between the output transistor and a current source used as a load is driven by an output signal from the other emitter follower circuit, to obtain a level-amplified output signal from an emitter of the output transistor.The speed of an operation of the circuit device can be increased to a high level owing to a simple circuit in which a level, which is required to attain an output amplitude, of complementary output signals is secured by the current switch circuit, the amplified complementary signals being inputted into the emitter follower circuit to directly drive the output transistor.
摘要:
Disclosed are a semiconductor integrated circuit device and methods for production thereof. An embodiment of the invention is a semiconductor chip that comprises fuses constituting part of redundancy circuits formed therein, the fuses being made of the same ingredients as those of a CCB bump substrate metal. The fuses are patterned simultaneously during the patterning of the CCB bump substrate metal. This involves forming the fuses using at least part of the ingredients of an electrode conductor pattern in the chip. The cutting regions of the fuses are made of only one of the metal layers constituting the substrate. The principal plane of the semiconductor chip has a fuse protective film formed over at least the cutting regions of the fuses for protection of the latter. In operation, a switch MOSFET under switching control of a redundancy signal is used to select one of two transmission paths, one carrying an address signal or a decode signal, the other carrying a reference voltage. This allows a faulty circuit to be replaced with the corresponding redundancy circuit.
摘要:
A high-speed bipolar MOS logic circuit is provided which includes a load resistance coupled between a first power supply voltage terminal and an output terminal and a bipolar transistor having a collector coupled to said output terminal and a base for receiving a predetermined voltage or an input signal a logic block is also provided including one or more MOSFETs having a source-drain path coupled in series between the emitter of said bipolar transistor and a second power supply voltage terminal.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method of making a semiconductor integrated circuit device, and aims at diminishing the size of the isolating region which isolates the adjacent semiconductor elements from each other. The method of the invention has the steps of forming on a substrate a deposition layer of diffused impurities of different conductivity type from that of the substrate, forming a masking film having apertures on the deposition layer, effecting an etching through making use of the masking film as the diffusion mask, so as to etch the portions of the deposition layer and the substrate under the apertures, thereby to form grooves which divide the deposition layer into island-like deposition layer sections, and stretching and diffusing the impurities in each island-like deposition layer section to form a diffusion layer which constitutes a part of a semiconductor element.
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit device is provided for permitting operation of a CMOS or BiCMOS memory with ECL level input signals, in which operating speed is increased and power consumption is reduced.Input signals of ECL levels are received by an input buffer for amplifying the input signals to an output signal level within a range where differential transistors of the input buffer operate in an unsaturation region. The output signal of the input buffer is supplied to a CMOS circuit or Bi-CMOS circuit which is operated by both an operating voltage having a first-stage smaller absolute value than that of the operating voltage of the input buffer and the ground potential of the circuit. This first stage CMOS or BiCMOS circuit also includes an arrangement to further amplify the received signals to provide further level conversion.Since both the input buffer and the first-stage CMOS or Bi-CMOS circuit perform signal transmission and level conversions, high-speed operation and low power consumption can be achieved by a simple structure.
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit is provided having first and second level generate circuits producing different levels and first and second emitter follower circuits respectively connected thereto. A level generated by one of the first and second level generate circuits is selectively supplied to either one of the first and second emitter follower circuits. This enables the first and second emitter follower circuits to supply the respective circuits formed in a semiconductor substrate with stable reference voltages.
摘要:
In order to provide high speed and low power consumption, a semiconductor integrated circuit is constructed to utilize both CMOS elements and bipolar transistors. The bipolar transistors are used in the output portions to take advantage of their speed of operation to allow rapid charging and discharging of output lines. In the meantime, the principal operating portions of the circuit use CMOS elements of low power consumption. This arrangement is particularly advantageous in memory circuits.
摘要:
In order to provide high speed and low power consumption, a semiconductor integrated circuit is constructed to utilize both CMOS elements and bipolar transistors. The bipolar transistors are used in the output portions to take advantage of their speed of operation to allow rapid charging and discharging of output lines. In the meantime, the principal operating portions of the circuit use CMOS elements of low power consumption. This arrangement is particularly advantageous in memory circuits.
摘要:
Disclosed is a bipolar-CMOS LSI manufactured by a simplified process and realizing a higher density of integration as well as a higher operating speed, in which a base lead-out electrode of a bipolar transistor and respective gate electrodes of a p-channel MISFET and an n-channel MISFET of CMOS transistors are made of an identical conductor film, and the conductor film of the gate electrode of the p-channel MISFET is of p-type, while that of the gate electrode of the n-channel MISFET is of n-type.