IP Library Granted Patent US 8,625,379
Granted Patent B2
US 8,625,379 · App. 13/671,392 · Granted Jan 7, 2014

Semiconductor storage device and electronic apparatus

Inventor: Yasuhiro Nakaoka (Kasugai, JP)
Assignee: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
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Patent No.
US 8,625,379
App. No.
13/671,392
Granted
Jan 7, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory macros including a plurality of memory cell arrays; a low-potential power supply boosting circuit coupling the low-potential power supply to the ground in a normal mode and coupling the low-potential power supply to a voltage higher than a ground voltage in a sleep mode; a virtual power control circuits including a plurality of switches which is turned on when switching from the sleep mode to the normal mode and is turned off when switching from the normal mode to the sleep mode; and a sleep cancellation detecting circuit outputting, when the mode control signal supplied to the plurality of switches in one of the plurality of memory macros indicates to switch form the sleep mode to the normal mode, the mode control signal to a subsequent memory macro subsequent to the one of the plurality of memory macros.

Claims (9)

1. A circuit semiconductor storage device comprising:

a plurality of memory macros coupled in series, each of the plurality of memory macros including a plurality of memory cell arrays;

a high-potential power supply step-down circuit provided for each of the plurality of memory cell arrays, the high-potential power supply step-down circuit provided between a high-potential power supply and a respective memory cell array, the high-potential power supply step-down circuit being configured to couple the high-potential power supply to the respective memory cell array in a normal mode and configured to couple the respective memory cell array to a voltage level lower than the high-potential power supply in a sleep mode;

a virtual power control circuit provided for each of the plurality of memory cell arrays, the virtual power control circuit including a plurality of switches provided in parallel with the high-potential power supply step-down circuit, each of the plurality of switches supplying an output to the high-potential power supply step-down circuit independent of every other one of the plurality of switches, the plurality of switches being configured to be turned on when a mode control signal indicates to switch from the sleep mode to the normal mode and configured to be turned off when a mode control signal indicates to switch from the normal mode to the sleep mode; and

a sleep cancellation detecting circuit configured to receive the mode control signal and to output a subsequent mode control signal to a subsequent memory macro subsequent to one of the plurality of memory macros when the mode control signal supplied to the plurality of switches of one of the plurality of memory cell arrays in the one of the plurality of memory macros indicates to switch from the sleep mode to the normal mode.

2. The circuit semiconductor storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the mode control signal is contemporaneously input to one of the plurality of switches of the plurality of the memory cell arrays.

3. The circuit semiconductor storage device according to claim 1 , wherein, when the mode control signal is input to the plurality of switches sequentially, the sleep cancellation detecting circuit detects a last mode control signal that is input last to the plurality of switches.

4. The circuit semiconductor storage device according to claim 1 , wherein, when the mode control signal is input to the plurality of switches sequentially, a last mode control signal that is input last to the plurality of switches is supplied to the subsequent memory macro, and

wherein the sleep cancellation detecting circuit detects the last mode control signal in a last memory macro of the plurality of memory macros coupled in series.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 27, 2015
From: FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED
To: SOCIONEXT INC.
Reel/Frame 035508/0637 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 3, 2012
From: FUJITSU MICROELECTRONICS LIMITED
To: FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED
Reel/Frame 029396/0165 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 16, 2012
From: NAKAOKA, YASUHIRO
To: FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED
Reel/Frame 029314/0359 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2009-17798 · Jan 29, 2009 · national
JP 2009-227306 · Sep 30, 2009 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 12695641 · Jan 28, 2010
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