摘要:
A dynamic random access memory that contains a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells includes a pre-amplifier intended to amplify data which is read out from a memory cell accessed by an address signal; a main-amplifier intended to amplify the output of the pre-amplifier and output the amplified signal; and a driver circuit intended to output a driving signal for driving the main-amplifier, the driver circuit includes a first and a second transistor, wherein a drain of the first transistor is connected to a node corresponding to an output terminal of the driver circuit, with a source of the first transistor being earthed and with a gate thereof being connected to the drain of the second transistor, and wherein a gate of the second transistor is connected to the node with a source thereof being earthed.
摘要:
An LSI semiconductor memory device in which errors in reading out memory cells connected to outermost bit lines of a memory cell array of the device are substantially eliminated. In accordance with the invention, this is done by making capacitances associated with the bit lines of respective ones of the memory cell array substantially equal to one another. To accomplish this, the configuration of an inside portion of wiring other than the bit lines of the array is made the same as that of the bit lines, and the distance between the outermost bit line and the other wiring is made equal to the distance between adjacent ones of the bit lines.
摘要:
Sense amplifiers provided for each of the bit line pairs are divided into groups to be independently driven, whereby the influence of sense amplifiers of different groups can be prevented, and therefore the destruction of data of the non-selected memory cells during data transfer can be prevented. In transferring data from the data register to the memory cell array, the sense amplifier is not activated until the stored information of the memory cells selected by the word line is fully read to the corresponding bit lines, whereby the destruction of data stored in the non-selected memory cells can be prevented.
摘要:
In a dynamic random access semiconductor memory device comprising a sense amplifier and two pairs of bit lines sharing the sense amplifiers, each of the bit lines having a plurality of memory cells connected thereto, when a memory cell connected to one of the bit-line pairs is selected, the memory cells connected to the other bit-line pair are not connected to the sense amplifier, and, during a refresh cycle for rewriting data into a selected memory cell connected to a bit line of one of the bit-line pairs, the bit lines of the other bit-line pair are disconnected from the sense amplifier.
摘要:
An arbiter circuit is disclosed for processing requests made at least two subsystems in a multiprocessor system for access to a resource shared by the subsystems. The arbiter circuit includes an SR flip-flop composed of a pair of NAND gates. The flip-flop is operative in response to a time-staggered request signals from the subsystems to provide a request acknowledging signal to the shared resource. When two request signals are simultaneously supplied to the arbiter circuit, the outputs from the pair of NAND gates tend to stay at an intermediate level between the normal two distincitive logic levels, failing to produce an acknowledgment signal. However, the intermediate level of the NAND gate outputs is sensed by a NOR gate to a trigger a switching device into conduction, by means of which one of the intermediate NAND gate outputs is positively shifted to either of the active logic levels for the generation of an acknowledgement signal to the shared resources. Thus, one of the two subsystems is allowed access to the shared resource.
摘要:
A switch device includes a key member (4). The key member (4) has a display switch button (13) including a transparent portion through which image information displayed on a display screen of an image display device is transmitted so as to display the image information on an outer side surface of the key member (4). Further, the key member (4) has a button mounting frame (16) including a switch depressing portion (14) operative to switch a switch (6) when the key depressing portion (14) is depressed, and having a button mounting hole portion to which the display switch button (13) is attached. Furthermore, the key member (4) has a waterproof dust cover (19) of a rubber material, which is molded integrally on the button mounting frame (16) to cover the same, and which includes a support portion (17) held in intimate contact with the display screen, and a contractible skirt portion (18). A plurality of resin filling holes are formed in the button mounting frame. The rubber material, forming the waterproof dust cover (19), is filled in the resin filling holes.
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit device including a semiconductor substrate having a main surface; a first conductive region formed on the main surface; a second conductive region formed on the main surface, spaced apart from the first conductive region and to be electrically connected to the first conductive region; and a capacitor having a storage node connecting the first and second conductive regions. The storage node serves to connect the first and second conductive regions and simultaneously stores charges. In other aspects of the invention, there are provided a memory cell having a structure described above, and a method of manufacturing the above-described semiconductor integrated circuit device.
摘要:
A level shifting circuit includes discharging means made up of a first high-voltage N-type transistor and a second high-voltage N-type transistor whose gates are biased respectively in a predetermined voltage and whose drains are connected to a first and second nodes respectively; and a first low-voltage N-type transistor and a second low-voltage N-type transistor whose drains are connected to sources of the first and second high-voltage N-type transistors respectively, whose gates are connected to the complementary input signal and whose sources are grounded respectively, and the predetermined voltage is set to an intermediate voltage between a threshold voltage of the first and second high-voltage N-type transistors and a breakdown voltage of the first and second low-voltage N-type transistors.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality or CAM cells. In a refreshing operation, data of "1" is applied to all of bit lines and inversion bit lines. In the CAM cells storing the data "1", writing of the data "1" onto the bit lines and the inversion bit lines is performed. Then, the data of "0" is applied to all of the bit lines and the inversion bit lines. In the CAM cells storing the data "0", writing of the data "0" onto the bit lines and the inversion bit lines is performed. In a partial writing operation, in the CAM cells to which writing is performed, a first control node is activated, thereby making it possible to write the CAM cells. In the rest of the CAM cells, the first control node is inactivated, thereby making it impossible to write the CAM cells.
摘要:
Disclosed is an arbiter circuit for arbitrating a contention between two request signals which simultaneously attain the H (logical high) level indicating a "request". In this arbiter circuit, buffer circuits, having different input logic threshold voltages, are connected to the respective outputs of two three-input NAND gates. The respective outputs of these two buffer circuits, as signals indicating "acknowledgement" or "negative acknowledgement" of the request signals, are derived as final outputs of the arbiter circuit. One of the buffer circuits has an input logic threshold voltage lower than a logic threshold voltage of the two NAND gates, while the other buffer circuit has an input logic threshold voltage set higher than the logic threshold voltage of the NAND gates. Therefore, when the NAND gates output a voltage with the logic level neither the H level nor the L (logical low) level, a signal of the logic level H indicating the "negative acknowledgement" and a signal of the logical level L indicating the "acknowledgement" are reliably outputted from the buffer circuit with the lower input logic threshold voltage and from the other buffer circuit with the higher input logic threshold voltage, respectively. That is, even if two requests occur simultaneously, one of the request signals is rapidly acknowledged.