摘要:
A semiconductor memory device has an operational mode such as a nibble mode or page mode, a first address strobe signal is kept in an active state, and a second address strobe signal is successively switched between an active state and standby state, thereby enabling successive data output. Previous output data is reset once, in accordance with the switchover of the second address strobe signal to the active state while the first address strobe signal is in the active state, before outputting data, and the reset operation for outputting is also performed when both the first and second address strobe signals are switched to the standby state, so that the period in which the data is output is expanded.
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a fuse-blown type ROM for storing information concerning defective bits for the replacement of defective bits in a semiconductor memory device, etc., with redundant bits. The integrated circuit device comprises fuses for constituting the ROM, pads for supplying a melting current to the fuses, and PN junctions each being formed, for example, by a semiconductor substrate and a diffusion layer formed on the semiconductor substrate. Each of the fuses is melted by applying voltage to a circuit connecting the PN junction, the fuse, and the pad so that the PN junction is forward biased, thereby supplying a large current to the fuse.
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit including a memory unit for storing address information of a failed circuit portion and for replacing the failed circuit portion by a redundant circuit portion. The semiconductor integrated circuit provides a comparison unit for detecting coincidence between data read from the memory unit and a received input address. Data produced from the comparison by the comparison unit is delivered through an external connection terminal.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device including: a substrate; a plurality of word lines; a plurality of bit lines; and a plurality of memory cells, each positioned at an intersection defined by one of the word lines and one of the bit lines and including a transfer transistor and a capacitor. Each of the memory cells has a first insulating layer covering a gate of the transfer transistor. The capacitor in each memory cell includes a second conductive layer which contacts one of source and drain regions of the transfer transistor in the memory cell, through the first insulating layer, and extends over the gate of the transfer transistor, a second insulating layer formed on the first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer extending over the second insulating layer. The semiconductor memory device further includes an additional conductive layer directly connected to the other of the source and drain regions of the transfer transistor in the memory cell, through the first insulating layer covering same, and extending over the gate of the adjoining transfer transistors. Each bit line is connected to the other of the source and drain regions through the additional conductive layer. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor memory device having the above construction.
摘要:
A dynamic semiconductor memory device including memory cells divided into a plurality of blocks (1-1, 1-2). A simultaneous write enable circuit performs a write operation simultaneously upon the plurality of blocks, and a comparison circuit compares read data of one block with read data of the other block, thereby carrying out a test.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device capable of compensating for variation in a discriminating voltage of a memory cell comprising a memory cell and a gate circuit for coupling the memory cell to a bit line. The device has a precharge circuit for precharging the bit line pair to a predetermined resultant precharge voltage in a reset state. The precharge circuit precharges a bit line pair with the resultant precharge voltage obtained by adding a compensating voltage to a precharge voltage in the reset state. The compensating voltage is adapted to compensate for variation in a memory cell discriminating voltage based on variation in a memory cell voltage caused by capacitive coupling of a word line to a memory capacitor due to a parasitic capacitance of a gate circuit in the active state, and the precharge voltage is adapted to optimize the memory cell discriminating voltage when it is assumed that the parasitic capacitance is not present.
摘要:
In a semiconductor memory device having stacked capacitor-type memory cells, the capacitor of each memory cell includes a base electrode, an insulating layer, and a counter electrode. The base electrode of each memory cell is partly superposed without contact on the base electrodes of other adjacent memory cells.
摘要:
A dynamic semiconductor memory device comprising: (1) one-transistor one-capacitor type memory cells connected between word lines and bit lines and (2) flip-flops, each flip-flop being connected between a pair of word lines to clamp an unselected word line in the pair of word lines to the low voltage of a power source, thereby preventing a subsequent erroneous reading operation as a result of an increase in potential of the unselected word line.
摘要:
A dynamic semiconductor memory device includes a one-transistor one-capacitor type dynamic memory cell and a voltage dividing circuit having a potential providing terminal for providing an intermediate potential between the potential of the power supply and ground potential. One electrode of the capacitor in the memory cell is connected to the potential providing terminal. The voltage dividing circuit includes a potential switching circuit which changes the intermediate potential synchronously with an internal clock signal for selecting a word line, thus preventing a read error.
摘要:
In a semiconductor memory device having stacked capacitor-type memory cells, the capacitor of each memory cell comprises an electrode, an insulating layer, and a counter electrode. The electrode is connected electrically to a source or drain region of a transfer transistor and extends over a part of a word line adjacent to another word line serving a gate electrode of the transfer transistor, at which part no memory cell is formed.