Semiconductor integrated circuit device
View Patent ↗A semiconductor device includes signal lines over which signals are transferred, and a drive circuit driving the signal lines in operating modes. The operating modes include a dynamic operation mode in which the signal lines are precharged, and a static operation mode in which the signal lines are not precharged.
1. A semiconductor device comprising:
an internal circuit configured to supply two signals that are complementary with each other to represent a single value in a first operation mode and capable of assuming either different signal levels or an identical signal level in a second operation mode;
a first data line;
a second data line: and
a drive circuit configured to set, in the first operation mode, the first data line to a signal level responsive to said single value represented by the two complementary signals, and configured to set, in the second operation mode, the first data line to a signal level responsive to one of the two signals and the second data line to a signal level responsive to another one of the two signals after precharging the first and second data lines, wherein the first operation mode is a read mode and the second operation mode is a test mode, and wherein a transistor for setting the first data line to a signal level responsive to said single value in the first operation mode is utilized to precharge the first data line in the second operation mode.
2. The semiconductor device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a memory cell array to which the first and second data lines are connected, data read from the memory cell array being transferred over the first and second data lines.