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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6601154 | Cache memory employing dynamically controlled data array start timing and a microcomputer using the same A comparator having a hit signal that is high, before a hit check is established in each way of an address array, and that goes low, when a mishit has been established. When a clock frequency is high, the address array is activated by the first clock sign... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6556499 | Nonvolatile semiconductor memory and read method In a nonvolatile semiconductor memory in which multiple-value information is stored in one memory cell by setting a plurality of threshold values, data is successively read from word lines while continuously changing the word-line read level from a lowest... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6548847 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE HAVING A FIRST WIRING STRIP EXPOSED THROUGH A CONNECTING HOLE, A TRANSITION-METAL FILM IN THE CONNECTING HOLE AND AN ALUMINUM WIRING STRIP THEREOVER, AND A TRANSITION-METAL NITRIDE FILM BETWEEN THE ALUMINUM WIRING STRIP AND THE TRANSITION-METAL FILM Herein disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit device fabricating process for forming MISFETs over the principal surface in those active regions of a substrate, which are surrounded by inactive regions formed of an element separating insulating fi... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6538329 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device and method for making the same A method for making a semiconductor integrated circuit device comprises the steps of: (a) depositing a first underlying film made of titanium nitride, on an insulating film having a plurality of through-holes; (b) depositing a tungsten film on the first u... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6525960 | Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device including correction of erratic memory cell data In the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, a plurality of threshold voltages are associated with the programming of multi-valued information in one memory cell, data is first written into a memory cell having a threshold voltage which is the lowest o... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6512245 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device A static random access memory comprising memory cells each composed of transfer MISFETs controlled by word lines and of a flip-flop circuit made of driver MISFETs and load MISFETs. The top of the load MISFETs is covered with supply voltage lines so that c... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6502136 | EXCLUSIVE CONTROL METHOD WITH EACH NODE CONTROLLING ISSUE OF AN EXCLUSIVE USE REQUEST TO A SHARED RESOURCE, A COMPUTER SYSTEM THEREFOR AND A COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH A CIRCUIT FOR DETECTING WRITING OF AN EVENT FLAG INTO A SHARED MAIN STORAGE A computer system including a plurality of processing nodes, at least one resource provided for use by any of the processing nodes and a plurality of register sets. Each register set is provided in each processing node for storing in parallel use status i... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6501689 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device A nonvolatile storage element of a single-layer gate type structure is arranged so that a floating gate is formed of a conductive layer which partly overlaps with a control gate, formed of a diffused layer, and is provided with a barrier layer covering a ... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6496418 | Semiconductor integrated circuit and data processing system A control of a flash memory includes control for supplying a pulse-shaped voltage to each of non-volatile memory cells until a threshold voltage of the non-volatile memory cell having a first threshold voltage is changed to a second threshold voltage. The... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6496934 | Data transfer controller, microcomputer and data processing system A combination mode a data transfer for a transfer source and a transfer destination is previously defined by a value of resource select information of a control register (CHCRn). An address comparator circuit (SACn, DACn) has judging logic specified by th... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6477671 | Semiconductor memory, memory device, and memory card A semiconductor memory (1) comprising a plurality of memory blocks (2 and 3) provided with a lot of memory cells, a data input/output buffer (7), and first control means (11) for controlling the rewriting and reading of data for the memory cells is provid... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6472727 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A ball grid array type semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip formed with bonding pads, an elastomer bonded to the semiconductor chip, a flexible wiring substrate bonded to the elastomer and formed with wirings connected at one end of the bon... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6459621 | Semiconductor integrated circuit and data processing system A control of a flash memory includes control for supplying a pulse-shaped voltage to each of non-volatile memory cells until a threshold voltage of the non-volatile memory cell having a first threshold voltage is changed to a second threshold voltage. The... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6400609 | Data line disturbance free memory block divided flash memory and microcomputer having flash memory therein A semiconductor device having and electrically erasable and programmable nonvolatile memory, for example, a rewritable nonvolatile memory including memory cells arranged in rows and columns and disposed to facilitate both flash erasure as well as selectiv... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6385085 | Nonvolatile semiconductor memory and read method In a nonvolatile semiconductor memory in which multiple-value information is stored in one memory cell by setting a plurality of threshold values, data is successively read from word lines while continuously changing the word-line read level from a lowest... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6342412 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device, process for fabricating the same, and apparatus for fabricating the same Herein disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit device fabricating process for forming MISFETs over the principal surface in those active regions of a substrate, which are surrounded by inactive regions formed of an element separating insulating fi... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6084809 | Main amplifier circuit and input-output bus for a dynamic random access memory A semiconductor memory is provided with a main amplifier circuit that is capable of selectively driving and precharging two I/O buses in conjunction with a write amplifier. The main amplifier circuit includes a separation and precharge section and an acti... | 07/04/2000 |
| 5910010 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device, and process and apparatus for manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device includes the steps of constructing a plurality of lead frames having leads which each include an inner portion and an outer portion and electrically connecting a semiconductor chip to the... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5616520 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device and fabrication method thereof A semiconductor device is fabricated by forming first metal balls on electrode pads of a semiconductor chip. The first metal balls each can have a sharp tipped anchor. All of the anchors simultaneously flattened slightly only to the extent of equalizing t... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5525547 | Method of fabricating a molded semiconductor device having blocking banks between leads A molded semiconductor device has a plurality of slender leads formed with a sealing strip connecting them together to prevent the molding material from leaking out between the leads. Specifically, the sealing strip comprising an adhesive and an electrica... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5523622 | Semiconductor integrated device having parallel signal lines For taking a characteristic impedance matching of signal transmission lines in a package which carries thereon a semiconductor chip with a very high-speed LSI formed thereon, there is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit device wherein one ends of ... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5523593 | Compound semiconductor integrated circuit and optical regenerative repeater using the same By forming an isolated semiconductor layer or electrode layer on a semiconductor surface between neighboring field effect transistors and element separating trenches which are deep enough to reach at least the semi-insulating substrate or the hetero junct... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5468989 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device having an improved vertical bipolar transistor structure There is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit device having bipolar transistors each composed of an emitter region, base region, and collector region arranged vertically on a semiconductor substrate, said collector region having a plane figure, wit... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5342480 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device An isolation and flattening technique for a semiconductor substrate having active devices, such as a bipolar transistor, and a MISFET, formed thereon, is disclosed. The technique includes forming grooves, to the main surface of a non-active region of a se... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5335203 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device with internal voltage drop circuits A semiconductor memory device has a plurality of divided memory blocks, each of which has its X-system addresses assigned so that an equal number of word lines in a plurality of sets of memory mats and sense amplifiers may be selected. Each memory block i... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5331191 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device, process for fabricating the same, and apparatus for fabricating the same Herein disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit device fabricating process for forming MISFETs over the principal surface in those active regions of a substrate, which are surrounded by inactive regions formed of an element separating insulating fi... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5317537 | Multi-port memory device having precharged bit lines A multi-port memory device has a memory cell array including one or more memory blocks each of which has a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, and a plurality of dummy cells, with one dummy cell being provided for each row of memory ce... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5313423 | Semiconductor memory device A multiport memory is provided which permits both random access and serial access. In order to reduce parasitic capacitance and improve operating speed, the serial input/output lines are each divided into two parts at their middle points. Sense amplifiers... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5304844 | Semiconductor device and method of producing the same A semiconductor device is provided having a semiconductor pellet that is arranged on a substantially central part of a film base in which a metal plate is overlaid with an insulating member, while inner leads are arranged on a peripheral part of the film ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5304868 | Non-inverting buffer circuit device and semiconductor memory circuit device A non-inverting buffer circuit device suited for an input buffer circuit of a semiconductor memory is provided so that the number of logic gate stages can be reduced to realize a high speed operation. The circuit is designed in such a way that an MOS tran... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5301142 | Semiconductor memory Each of a plurality of memory arrays is divided into a plurality of memory mats MAT00L-MAT07L to MAT10R-MAT17R in directions in which word lines and bit lines extend. First common data lines, that is, sub-IO lines, are provided which correspond to these m... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5296729 | Semiconductor memory device having static random access memory There is provided a technique capable of reducing the electrode resistance by widening the effective area of an electrode in a cell for a standard potential supply connected to the memory cell. There is also provided a technique capable of reducing the me... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5274377 | Pipelined A/D converter There is disclosed a pipelined A/D converter including a plurality of A/D-D/A sub-blocks and one A/D sub-block successively connected in cascade form to determine a conversion output by several partial bits beginning from the most significant bit. Each of... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5270259 | Method for fabricating an insulating film from a silicone resin using O.sub . A silicone resin is applied on a substrate to form a coating film. The coating film is subjected to a reactive ion etching in an atmosphere containing at least O2. Thus, the film is inorganized in its surface and has a distribution of the resid... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5270944 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device and process for manufacturing the same A method of fabrication comprising forming a semiconductor integrated circuit device LSI which has a microcomputer CPU furnished with an EPROM, determining a program for controlling the microcomputer CPU and to be set in the EPROM (performing an initial e... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5262993 | Semiconductor memory having redundancy circuit with means to switch power from a normal memory block to a spare memory block In a semiconductor memory, switch circuits are provided so as to inhibit voltage and signal supplies to each of the normal memory blocks when so required. On the other hand, a ROM is provided on the chip so as to store the address of a defective memory bl... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5225709 | Package having a structure for stabilizing and/or impedance-matching a semiconductor IC device accommodated therein A packaged semiconductor device has a package, a semiconductor IC chip disposed in a space formed in the package, a strip conductor buried at a first level in the package for carrying a signal to be coupled to the IC chip, a first reference potential cond... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5217917 | Semiconductor memory device with improved substrate arrangement to permit forming a plurality of different types of random access memory, and a testing method therefor A semiconductor memory device is provided which includes a substrate arrangement which is suitable for forming a large number of types of DRAMs having different package specifications, different bit structure and different operating modes. In conjunction ... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5194866 | Half-flash analog-to-digital converter using differential comparators and crossover switching A resistor-string divided into plural sets of unit-resistors generates plural reference voltages for the upper bits, while each divided set generates plural reference voltages for the lower bits. A first and second differential input are generated in dire... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5182719 | Method of fabricating a second semiconductor integrated circuit device from a first semiconductor integrated circuit device A method of fabricating a second semiconductor integrated circuit device includes steps of forming a first semiconductor integrated circuit device which has a microcomputer and is furnished with an EPROM; determining a program for controlling the microcom... | 01/26/1993 |
