IP Library Granted Patent US 7,596,051
Granted Patent B2
US 7,596,051 · App. 12/068,289 · Granted Sep 29, 2009

Semiconductor memory integrated circuit

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Patent No.
US 7,596,051
App. No.
12/068,289
Granted
Sep 29, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A semiconductor memory integrated circuit having an X-row controller which includes a high-speed-operation control circuit by which when receiving a bank active signal, a period for stopping a latch circuit from receiving the X address is produced after a predetermined time has elapsed, and in the other periods, the latch circuit receives and holds the X address; a low-current-operation control circuit by which when receiving no bank active signal, the latch circuit stops receiving the X address, and when receiving the bank active signal, the latch circuit holds the X address after a predetermined time has elapsed; a circuit for selecting whether the bank active signal is output to the high-speed-operation control circuit or the low-current-operation control circuit; and a circuit for selecting whether the latch-circuit control signal from the high-speed-operation control circuit or the latch-circuit control signal from the low-current-operation control circuit is output to the latch circuit.

Claims (14)

1. A semiconductor memory integrated circuit comprising:

an X-row controller for reading an X address from an X-address signal line in the semiconductor memory integrated circuit, holding the X address in a latch circuit, and outputting the X address stored by the latch circuit to a predecoder selected by an bank active signal, wherein the X-row controller includes:

a high-speed-operation control circuit for generating and outputting a latch-circuit control signal, by which:

when the bank active signal is input into the high-speed-operation control circuit, an X-address reading stop period for stopping the latch circuit from receiving the X address is produced after a predetermined amount of delay time has elapsed from the input of the bank active signal, and

in the periods other than the X-address reading stop period, the latch circuit receives and holds the X address;

a low-current-operation control circuit for generating and outputting a latch-circuit control signal, by which:

when no bank active signal is input into the low-current-operation control circuit, the latch circuit stops receiving the X address, and

when the bank active signal is input into the low-current-operation control circuit, the latch circuit receives and holds the X address after a predetermined amount of delay time has elapsed from the input of the bank active signal;

an input switching circuit for selecting whether the bank active signal is output to the high-speed-operation control circuit or the low-current-operation control circuit in accordance with a switching signal input into the X-row controller; and

an output switching circuit for selecting whether the latch-circuit control signal output from the high-speed-operation control circuit or the latch-circuit control signal output from the low-current-operation control circuit is output to the latch circuit in accordance with the switching signal.

2. The semiconductor memory integrated circuit in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the semiconductor memory integrated circuit including the X-row controller is formed on a single chip.

3. The semiconductor memory integrated circuit in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the state of the switching signal input into the input switching circuit and the output switching circuit is determined by setting a mask pattern.

4. The semiconductor memory integrated circuit in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the state of the switching signal input into the input switching circuit and the output switching circuit is determined by making a laser fuse conduct or shut off the electricity.

5. The semiconductor memory integrated circuit in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the state of the switching signal input into the input switching circuit and the output switching circuit is determined by making an antifuse conduct or shut off the electricity.

Assignments (6)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 21, 2018
From: LONGITUDE SEMICONDUCTOR S.A.R.L.
To: LONGITUDE LICENSING LIMITED
Reel/Frame 046867/0248 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 24, 2016
From: PS5 LUXCO S.A.R.L.
To: LONGITUDE SEMICONDUCTOR S.A.R.L.
Reel/Frame 039793/0880 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 24, 2016
From: PS4 LUXCO S.A.R.L.
To: PS5 LUXCO S.A.R.L.
Reel/Frame 039818/0506 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 15, 2014
From: ELPIDA MEMORY, INC.
To: PS4 LUXCO S.A.R.L.
Reel/Frame 032899/0588 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Jul 29, 2013
From: PS4 LUXCO S.A.R.L.
To: ELPIDA MEMORY INC.
Reel/Frame 032414/0261 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 5, 2008
From: SAKAMOTO, TATSUYA
To: ELPIDA MEMORY, INC.
Reel/Frame 020516/0019 →