摘要:
A loop heat pipe system includes a loop heat pipe (LHP), a temperature sensor, a heater and a controller. The temperature sensor measures temperature of a working fluid portion of the LHP in which the working fluid has different phases depending on whether or not the LHP is in a disable status not to start up a heat transportation, in which a liquid phase of the working fluid does not exist in an evaporator of the LHP. The heater heats a heating target part of a vapor line. The controller, in order to start up the LHP, turns on the heater, monitors temperature of the heating target part using the temperature sensor, and turns off the heater when detecting a change in the monitored temperature, caused by condensation of a vapor phase of the working fluid.
摘要:
A loop heat pipe system includes: a loop heat pipe (LHP) including an evaporator, a condenser, a vapor line, and a liquid; a temperature sensor to measure temperature of part of the LHP, a working fluid portion in which has different phases in a situation where the LHP functions as a heat transport device and in a situation where the LHP dose not function as a heat transport device and a liquid phase of the working fluid dose not exist in the evaporator; a heater to heat a heating target part of the vapor line; and a controller, in order to start the LHP, to turn on the heater, to monitor temperature of the heating target part using the temperature sensor, and to turn off the heater when detecting a change caused by condensation of a vapor phase of the working fluid in the monitored temperature.
摘要:
A memory cell power supply circuit includes: a memory cell power supply PMOS transistor connected between a power supply node and a power supply potential, a diode-connected transistor provided between a gate of the memory cell power supply transistor and the power supply potential, and a resistor provided between the gate of the memory cell power supply transistor and a ground potential. During a writing operation when a value of current flowing to the memory cell is high, if the power supply potential increases, a cell power supply potential down-converted by a greater amount is supplied to the memory cell.
摘要:
In a semiconductor gate circuit, an MOS transistor having a low threshold voltage and a standard MOS transistor having threshold voltages of large absolute values are connected in series between an output node and a power supply node. The MOS transistor having the threshold voltage of the large absolute value receives on a gate thereof, a signal preceding in phase a signal applied to a gate of the MOS transistor having the small threshold voltage. In the semiconductor gate circuit, a dependency of input/output characteristics on a power supply voltage is small, and a leak current during standby is reduced. The standard MOS transistor turns on prior to turning on of the low threshold voltage MOS transistor, and turns off when the low threshold voltage MOS transistor turns off. The output node driving current is controlled by the low threshold voltage MOS transistor while a subthreshold leak current is suppressed by the standard transistor. A gate circuit having a small dependency of an input/output characteristics on the power supply voltage is implemented without increasing the power consumption.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device is provided including plural memory cells and capable of a dual port access. In the memory device the memory cell is composed with two driver transistors 1, two load transistors 2, and two access transistors 3, and in the data read, the word line 11 makes the access transistors 3 conductive to read out data held in the driver transistors to a pair of the bit lines, and in the data write, the load transistor control line makes the load transistors conductive to write data into the driver transistors from a pair of the memory cell VCC lines.
摘要:
Memory blocks having word lines driven into selected states independently of each other are provided in correspondence to data input/output bits respectively. Each memory cell includes a bipolar transistor and a MOS transistor. In each memory block, a current flows to a bit line only of a selected column, and a 1-bit memory cell is accessed therein. Thus, sense amplifiers and write drivers have only to be provided in numbers corresponding to that of the data bits, whereby the circuit occupying area as well as current consumption are reduced.
摘要:
The number of apparently independently operating memory sets can be changed by providing the same number of address setting circuits as that of memory cell arrays. Since the number of mounted address setting circuits increases compared with a case where the number of memory sets is fixed, the problem arises that the layout area in a semiconductor memory device increases. However, by providing a switching circuit for switching the correspondence relationship between memory cell arrays and address setting circuits in response to a signal selecting the number of memory sets, a semiconductor memory device capable of changing the number of memory sets which seemingly independently operate without providing the same number of address setting circuits as that of memory cell arrays.
摘要:
A dummy pattern for use in a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process is disposed in a field dummy region within a p− well region, isolated by an isolating insulating film, wherein the p− well region has a potential fixed by a ground electrode. The dummy pattern includes a gate insulating film dummy pattern and a gate electrode dummy pattern, formed in the same layers as a gate insulating film and a gate electrode, respectively, of an NMOS transistor. The gate electrode dummy pattern is connected with a contact plug, which in turn is connected with a power supply electrode (Vcc) interconnection line. Thus, a decoupling condenser, formed of the field dummy region within the p− well, the gate insulating film dummy pattern and the gate electrode dummy pattern by utilizing the dummy patterns for use in the CMP process, is connected in parallel with a primary electronic circuit. As a result, a semiconductor device is obtained which operates at a low voltage with suppressed electromagnetic interference (EMI), without increasing an area occupied by the semiconductor device.
摘要:
A memory cell power supply line is provided to supply a ground potential corresponding to each column in a regular memory cell array. Among fuse elements, the fuse element corresponding to the memory cell column that is to be subjected to redundancy replacement is decoupled, whereby supply of the ground potential to the regular memory cell column to be replaced is suppressed.
摘要:
In an SRAM, a breaking circuit includes a P channel MOS transistor connected between the source of an N channel MOS transistor, which forms a bit line load, and one end of a bit line, and an inverter to supply the gate of the P channel MOS transistor with an inverted signal of a signal which appears at the one end of the bit line. If the bit line is short-circuited with a line of a ground potential and is defective, the P channel MOS transistor is rendered non-conductive, thereby preventing current leakage from a line of a power supply potential through the defective bit line to the ground potential line. Therefore, current consumption is reduced.