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Semiconductor memory system

US5598373A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 7, 1995
Grant dateJan 28, 1997
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Expiry dateJun 7, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C29/44
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A defect remedy LSI mounted on a memory module, comprising: an input interface portion for capturing address and control signals, the input interface portion being the same as that of a dynamic RAM; an input/output interface portion corresponding to a data bus of a memory device comprised of a plurality of dynamic random access memories; a memory circuit to which a chip address and an X defective address of any of the plurality of random access memories are electrically written, the memory circuit being substantially made nonvolatile; a redundancy remedy RAM portion composed of a static RAM wherein a word line is selected by a compare match signal between an X address signal and the defective address of the memory circuit, the X address signal and the defective address being captured via the input interface portion, and a column is selected by a Y address signal captured via the input interface portion; a selecting portion for connecting a data input/output bus of the redundancy remedy RAM portion to an input/output circuit corresponding to a defective chip address; a data input/output portion for selectively activating an input/output circuit to be connected to a data bus correspo…

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