摘要:
A testing circuit for verifying the impedance of off-chip drivers includes: a plurality of off-chip drivers (OCD), each off-chip driver including a through-silicon via (TSV); an IREF test pad, for driving a current to the plurality of off-chip drivers; a plurality of pre-drivers, each respective pre-driver coupled to one of the plurality of off-chip drivers, wherein the plurality of pre-drivers are configured to turn on the off-chip drivers; a VREF test pad, for inputting a reference voltage to the testing circuit; a plurality of input buffers (IB) for outputting a plurality of comparison results, each of the plurality of input buffers configured to output the plurality of comparison results according to the reference voltage and the voltage at the TSV nodes; and a test pad, coupled to the plurality of IBs, for receiving the comparison results to determine whether the impedance of each OCD is within a desired range.
摘要:
A refresh scheduler is configured to refresh memory cells of a memory device according to a plurality of refresh intervals. The various refresh intervals are determined in response to refresh errors.
摘要:
A memory includes a first macro chip, a spine chip, and a common substrate. The common substrate is configured to pass signals between the first macro chip and the spine chip. The first macro chip, the spine chip, and the common substrate provide a memory.
摘要:
System and method for reducing power consumption and noise in a transmission system with an asymmetrically terminated transmission line. A preferred embodiment comprises encoding data words to reduce the number of times a given state appears in a code word. The preferred embodiment comprises counting the number of times a given state appears in a data word. If the count is greater than half of the total number of bits in the data word, then the data word is inverted and a weight bit can be set to the given state. If the count is less than (or equal to) half of the total number of bits, then the data word may be unchanged and the weight bit can be set to the inverse of the given state. The code word can be generated by appending the weight bit to the data word.
摘要:
A memory device includes a pair of complementary bitlines including a first bitline and a second bitline. A bitline precharge block is coupled between the first bitline and the second bitline. A sense amplifier is coupled to both the first bitline and the second bitline and a sense amplifier precharge block is coupled to the sense amplifier. The sense amplifier precharge block can be activated independently from the bitline precharge block. An isolation block is coupled between the pair of complementary bitlines and the bitline precharge block on one side and the sense amplifier and sense amplifier precharge block on another side.
摘要:
A semiconductor packaging arrangement, or module, includes a printed circuit board having an electrical interconnect thereon and a semiconductor package mounted to the printed circuit board. The semiconductor package includes a fractional portion of a semiconductor wafer having a plurality of integrated circuit chips thereon, such chips being separated by regions in the fractional portion of the wafer. The fractional portion of the wafer has a plurality of electrical contacts electrically connected to the chips. The package also includes a dielectric member having an electrical conductor thereon. The electrical conductor are electrically connected to the plurality of electrical contacts of the plurality of chips to electrically interconnect such plurality of chips with portions of the electrical conductor spanning the regions in the fractional portion of the wafer. A connector is provided for electrically connecting the electrical conductor of the package to the electrical interconnect of the printed circuit board.
摘要:
A clock circuit, in accordance with the present invention, includes a first circuit stage for providing a first output signal and a second output signal. The first circuit stage includes inputs for clock signals. A switch is coupled to the first stage for switching an output polarity by selecting one of the first output signal and the second output signal generated by the first circuit stage in accordance with a control signal. A second circuit stage is coupled to the first circuit stage through the switch. The second circuit stage for shaping the first and second output signals input thereto from the switch. The second circuit stage includes an output for outputting clock pulses based on the first and second output signals. The control signal is generated from the clock pulses.
摘要:
A redundant circuit configuration for an integrated semiconductor memory has normal and redundant memory cells, in which addresses of arbitrary groups of memory cells of the memory are formed from a first partial address and a second partial address. M fixedly programmable address circuits, where M.gtoreq.1, are each assigned to one of the first partial addresses. Each fixedly programmable address circuit in an activated state has the second partial address of a group of normal memory cells to be replaced and has a first output at which an activation signal is applied in the activated state of the address circuit if the first partial address applied to the circuit configuration matches the first partial address assigned to the address circuit. One address comparator is common to all of the address circuits and has a first output. The comparator compares the second partial address stored in memory in one of the address circuits with the applied second partial address, at the applied activation signal of the one address circuit. The comparator supplies an enable signal at the first output of the address comparator if the two partial addresses match. Redundance decoders are triggered by the enable signal.
摘要:
A decoded source sense amplifier in which the column select signal is shaped so that it turns on bit select transistors at a predetermined time after the source electrodes of the sense amplifier are connected to ground, so as to give the sense amplifier time to latch before it is coupled to external bit lines.
摘要:
A circuit test interface and a test method are disclosed. The circuit test interface may include a test voltage input pad, a test voltage output pad, and a plurality of input buffers. Each of the plurality of input buffers may have a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal. The first input terminal of each respective input buffer may be coupled to one of a plurality of through-silicon vias (TSVs). The circuit test interface may further include a plurality of switch units. Each of the plurality of switch units may have a first terminal and a second terminal. The circuit test interface may further include a scan chain, coupled to both the output terminal of each of the plurality of input buffers and to the test voltage output pad.