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Semiconductor memory device having a coincidence detection circuit and its test method

US5521870A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 6, 1994
Grant dateMay 28, 1996
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Expiry dateDec 6, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C2029/4002
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks, a write circuit for writing data into the memory blocks, a read circuit for reading data from the memory blocks, a plurality of serial registers, each of which is connected to the corresponding memory block to output serially a plurality of data read from the memory block, a plurality of switches, each of which is arranged between two adjacent ones of the serial registers to connect the serial registers in series, and a coincidence detection circuit for detecting a coincidence of data outputted from a final serial register arranged at a final end of the serial registers connected by the switches with data outputted from a serial register arranged immediately before the final serial register.

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