IP Library Granted Patent US 9,742,392
Granted Patent B2
US 9,742,392 · App. 15/041,554 · Granted Aug 22, 2017

Semiconductor device performing boot-up operation

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Patent No.
US 9,742,392
App. No.
15/041,554
Granted
Aug 22, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A semiconductor device includes a boot-up start signal generation unit configured to generate a boot-up start signal which is enabled in synchronization with a time at which a preset delay period has passed from a time point at which an initialization signal is enabled after a power-up period is ended, and a boot-up period signal generation unit configured to generate a boot-up period signal which is enabled according to a set pulse generated in synchronization with a time point at which the boot-up start signal is enabled.

Claims (21)

1. A semiconductor device comprising:

a boot-up start signal generation unit configured to generate a boot-up start signal which is enabled in synchronization with a time point at which a preset delay period has passed from a time at which an initialization signal is enabled after a power-up period is ended;

a boot-up period signal generation unit configured to generate a boot-up period signal which is enabled according to a set pulse generated in synchronization with a time at which the boot-up start signal is enabled, and

a boot-up operation circuit configured to perform a boot-up operation in which control data generated in response to the boot-up period signal is transferred to a first data latch unit and a second data latch unit,

wherein the boot-up period signal is disabled in response to an end pulse.

2. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the boot-up start signal generation unit comprises:

a signal combination section configured to generate a combined power-up signal in response to a power-up signal, enabled after the power-up period is ended, and the initialization signal.

3. The semiconductor device of claim 2 , wherein the combined power-up signal is enabled when both the power-up signal and the initialization signal are enabled.

4. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the boot-up start signal generation unit comprises:

a control signal generation section configured to generate an oscillator control signal in response to the combined power-up signal and to generate the boot-up start signal in response to a count output signal.

5. The semiconductor device of claim 4 , wherein the oscillator control signal is enabled in synchronization with a time at which the combined power-up signal is enabled, and the boot-up start signal is enabled in synchronization with a time at which the count output signal is enabled.

6. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the boot-up start signal generation unit comprises:

a counter output signal generation section configured to generate an oscillation signal in response to an oscillator control signal, and to generate a count output signal by performing a counting operation in synchronization with the oscillation signal.

7. The semiconductor device of claim 6 , wherein the counter output signal generation section comprises:

an oscillator configured to generate the oscillation signal when the oscillator control signal is enabled; and

a counter configured to detect a toggling number of the oscillation signal and generate the count output signal which is enabled at a time at which the delay period has passed from a time at which the oscillator control signal has been enabled.

8. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the boot-up period signal generation unit comprises:

a set pulse generation section configured to generate a set pulse in response to the boot-up start signal;

a reset pulse generation section configured to generate a reset pulse in response to the end pulse; and

a latch section configured to generate the boot-up period signal in response to the set pulse and the reset pulse.

9. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the boot-up operation circuit generates the end pulse when the boot-up operation is ended.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 7, 2024
From: SK HYNIX INC.
To: MIMIRIP LLC
Reel/Frame 067335/0246 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 11, 2016
From: SHIN, TAE KYUN
To: SK HYNIX INC.
Reel/Frame 037715/0745 →