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Low voltage-operated semiconductor integrated circuit

US4984202A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 20, 1990
Grant dateJan 8, 1991
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Expiry dateMar 20, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C11/4074
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A large-scale semiconductor integrated circuit comprising a low voltage-operated CMOS internal circuit, input and output circuits having bipolar transistors, said low voltage-operated CMOS internal circuit being supplied with an internal power supply voltage which is produced by dropping an external power supply voltage, and a level shifting circuit which converts the levels of signals in the chip. The input and output signals have the ECL level or the TTL level. The low voltage-operated CMOS internal circuit includes, for example, a DRAM of greater than 4 megabits and a microprocessor, and the internal operation voltage is smaller than 1.5 V. By the structure, a high-speed, low-power-consumption and low-noise semiconductor device is provided.

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