摘要:
A semiconductor memory device is provided which ensures the symmetry of memory data transmission time and a high-speed operation and has large write/read operation margin with no need of increasing the chip area. By placing a horizontally long peripheral circuit section in the middle in the vertical direction of a semiconductor chip, placing a vertically long shift register section above and below and perpendicularly to the peripheral circuit section, and making the memory core and shift register arrangement symmetrical in the horizontal direction, the data/signal lines between the memory core and the shift register section can be made short and the symmetry of the interconnections can be maintained, which allows the implementation of a high-speed and large-margin semiconductor memory device. In addition, a faster semiconductor memory can be obtained by forming the shift register section by stacking shift registers each corresponding to a data block and selecting the order in which the shift registers are stacked so that the length of interconnections between the peripheral circuit and the shift register is minimized.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device is provided which ensures the symmetry of memory data transmission time and a high-speed operation and has large write/read operation margin with no need of increasing the chip area. By placing a horizontally long peripheral circuit section in the middle in the vertical direction of a semiconductor chip, placing a vertically long shift register section above and below and perpendicularly to the peripheral circuit section, and making the memory core and shift register arrangement symmetrical in the horizontal direction, the data/signal lines between the memory core and the shift register section can be made short and the symmetry of the interconnections can be maintained, which allows the implementation of a high-speed and large-margin semiconductor memory device. In addition, a faster semiconductor memory can be obtained by forming the shift register section by stacking shift registers each corresponding to a data block and selecting the order in which the shift registers are stacked so that the length of interconnections between the peripheral circuit and the shift register is minimized.
摘要:
An input/output circuit inputs/outputs serial data. A register section comprises a first and a second register. The first register converts the serial data into parallel data. The second register converts parallel data into serial data. A first control signals supply a conversion timing for each bit when the serial data are converted into the parallel data. A second control signals supply a conversion timing for each bit when the parallel data are converted into the serial data. The signal generating circuit controls a timing of rise or fall of the first control signals and sets which of the memory cells should store a value for each bit, of the serial data, and controls a timing of rise or fall of the second control signals and sets which number of value of the serial data should be the value for each bit, of the parallel data read from the memory cells.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device comprises a memory cell array, a first latch circuit group, and a second latch circuit group. The first latch circuit group sequentially outputs n/2 bit read data of n-bit read data from the memory cell array in response to sequentially shifted read control signals. The second latch circuit group sequentially outputs the remaining n/2 bit read data in response to the sequentially shifted read control signal.
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes first and second MOS transistors and a capacitor. The first MOS transistor has a drain connected to an output terminal, a gate and a source. The second MOS transistor has a gate, a drain connected to the source of the first MOS transistor and a source and has the same conductivity type as the first MOS transistor. The capacitor has one electrode connected to the gate of the first MOS transistor and the other electrode connected to a node whose potential changes in a complementary fashion with respect to the drain potential of the first MOS transistor and functions to cancel out an influence, caused by the coupling of a mirror capacitor which exists between the gate and drain of the first MOS transistor, affecting the gate potential of the first MOS transistor.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory includes a converter configured to convert each read-data of plural bits read from a memory core into serial data, respectively, in synchronization with a read clock to generate converted read-data. An output register holds the converted read-data in synchronization with the read clock. A selector selects one bit from each plural bits of the converted read-data, in accordance with a control data, and to supply the selected bit to the output register.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory includes a converter configured to convert each read-data of plural bits read from a memory core into serial data, respectively, in synchronization with a read clock to generate converted read-data. An output register holds the converted read-data in synchronization with the read clock. A selector selects one bit from each plural bits of the converted read-data, in accordance with a control data, and to supply the selected bit to the output register.
摘要:
A DRAM, including a plurality of banks each having a plurality of sub-arrays, and sense amplifier circuits commonly shared by sub-arrays in different banks, has a row access mode for activating a sub-array selected from each bank for reading or writing data, and a refresh mode for activating a plurality of sub-arrays in each bank and refreshing memory cell data therein at substantially the same timing. Sub-arrays in each bank activated at substantially the same timing in the refresh mode are more than sub-arrays in each bank activated in the row access model. Thereby, occurrence of operation constrains is minimized to ensure high-speed operation and improve the system performance of DRAMs employing the non-independent bank system.
摘要:
A DRAM, including a plurality of banks each having a plurality of sub-arrays, and sense amplifier circuits commonly shared by sub-arrays in different banks, has a row access mode for activating a sub-array selected from each bank for reading or writing data, and a refresh mode for activating a plurality of sub-arrays in each bank and refreshing memory cell data therein at substantially the same timing. Sub-arrays in each bank activated at substantially the same timing in the refresh mode are more than sub-arrays in each bank activated in the row access model. Thereby, occurrence of operation constrains is minimized to ensure high-speed operation and improve the system performance of DRAMs employing the non-independent bank system.
摘要:
A semiconductor device comprises a board; a semiconductor chip; a memory controller operative to control the semiconductor chip; and a power supply chip having a capacitor. The semiconductor chip is stacked on the board. The memory controller and the power supply chip are stacked on the semiconductor chip. The capacitor is used to stabilize the voltage applied to the semiconductor chip.