摘要:
A semiconductor switch assuring the easy formation of a semiconductor integrated circuit and having high control sensitivity while maintaining high dv/dt - immunity, which comprises a PNPN switch of an equivalently four-layered structure including at least three PN-junctions, an anode and a cathode, switching means including a control terminal and connected with the PNPN switch to shunt one of the three PN-junctions at either one end of the PNPN switch, amplifying means, and a capacitive element for differentiating a voltage applied between the anode and the cathode of the PNPN switch to allow a current to flow into the control terminal of the switching means through the amplifying means, so that the switching means is driven by the current thereby to short-circuit the one of three PN-junctions.
摘要:
A stable semiconductor switch comprising a PNPN switch, a transistor, a driving device, and diodes. The PNPN switch is composed of four-layered PNPN structure and has three PN-junctions, an anode, an anode gate, a cathode gate, and a cathode. The collector and the emitter of the transistor are connected to the cathode gate and the cathode of the PNPN switch, respectively. The driving device has its one end connected to the anode gate of the PNPN switch and its other end connected to the base of the transistor so as to drive the transistor in transient state. The diodes are connected between the driving device and the emitter of the transistor in a manner so that, when the PNPN switch is controlled to fire and a back current tends to flow through the PNPN switch temporarily, the back current does not flow through the transistor so as to prevent the transistor from causing any abnormal actions such as oscillation.
摘要:
A thyristor highly proof against dv/dt in which to prevent malignition due to the displacement current produced by the application of an abruptly rising forward voltage or the internal leakage current increasing with the temperature rise of the semiconductor substrate, an auxiliary electrode is provided to the intermediate region adjacent to one of the outermost regions of the semiconductor substrate to which two main electrodes, anode and cathode, are provided, the auxiliary electrode and the main electrode on the one outermost region being connected electrically, and a control region having the opposite conductivity type to that of the intermediate region is formed in the intermediate region between the auxiliary electrode and the main electrode on the one outermost region, the control region being provided with a gate electrode. By supplying a control signal to the gate electrode a depletion layer is produced in the intermediate region such that the path of the control signal from the gate electrode to the auxiliary electrode is completely blocked and the control signal is all utilized for the ignition. The displacement current and the leakage current are bypassed from the auxiliary electrode to the main electrode on the one outermost region.
摘要:
An improved arrangement is provided for forming a bipolar transistor on a substrate with CMOS elements. All of the transistors (i.e., the bipolar, P-MOS and N-MOS) are formed in regions having gradually decreasing impurity concentrations from a surface toward the substrate. In addition, a buried layer is provided under each of the regions of decreasing impurity concentration in which the transistors are formed. These buried layers have a significantly higher impurity concentration than the portion of the region of decreasing impurity concentration which they are respectively adjacent to. Using this arrangement, punch-through is prevented and excellent electrical operating characteristics are provided for both the bipolar transistors and the CMOS elements.
摘要:
A light-activated semiconductor-controlled rectifier device comprising four layers of PNPN is disclosed in which a part of the edges of the PN junction formed between the intermediate P-type layer and the intermediate N-type layer is exposed on the same side on which the outer P-type layer is exposed, so that a photo-trigger signal is radiated on that exposed part of the edges of the PN junction.
摘要:
Each of processors has a barrier write register and a barrier read register. Each barrier write register is wired to each barrier read register by a dedicated wiring block. For example, a 1-bit barrier write register of a processor is connected, via the wiring block, to a first bit of each 8-bit barrier read register contained in the processors, and a 1-bit barrier write register of another processor is connected, via a wiring block, to a second bit of each 8-bit barrier read register contained in the processors. For example, a processor writes information to its own barrier write register, thereby notifying synchronization stand-by to the other processors and reads its own barrier read register, thereby recognizing whether the other processors are in synchronization stand-by or not. Therefore, a special dedicated instruction is not required along barrier synchronization processing, and the processing can be made at a high speed.
摘要:
A semiconductor data processor has a first memory(6) constituting a cache memory, a second memory(20) capable of being a cacheable area or a non-cacheable area by the first memory, and a read buffer(12) capable of carrying out an operation for outputting data corresponding to a read access when the second memory is read accessed as the non-cacheable area. The designation of the cacheable area and the non-cacheable area for the second memory is determined by the designation of a cacheable area or a non-cacheable area for a memory space to which the second memory is mapped. The designation may be carried out in the operation mode of the data processor or by setting a control register, for example.
摘要:
A lateral transistor having a high breakdown voltage and operable with an improved current amplification factor and an improved cut-off frequency comprises in a semiconductor substrate of one conductivity type, a base layer of the one conductivity type and an emitter layer of the other conductivity type formed in the base layer. A first collector layer of the other conductivity type is formed in the one principal surface of the substrate apart from the base layer and a second collector layer of the same conductivity type having an impurity concentration lower than that of the first collector layer is formed between the first collector layer and the base layer in contact with the latter layers. Emitter, base and collector electrodes make ohmic contact with the emitter, base and first collector layers respectively. The emitter electrode extends on a passivation film covering the one principal surface of the substrate to terminate at a point on the second collector layer.
摘要:
A photo-coupler semiconductor device includes a semiconductor light emitter and a semiconductor light detector coupled optically with each other through an optical guide. A portion of the optical guide close to the semiconductor light detector is made of glass. The glass portion of the optical guide is brought into intimate contact with a glass layer which is formed on a light sensitive region of the semiconductor light detector. The intimate contact is made by melting the glass portion on the glass layer.
摘要:
A thyristor with a gate electrode formed on the side of an anode electrode. An auxiliary region of a large lateral resistance is formed in a surface layer of the substrate between the anode and gate electrodes.