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Semiconductor device with selectable pads

US6339551B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateApr 27, 2000
Grant dateJan 15, 2002
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Expiry dateApr 27, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C2207/105
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A semiconductor device includes at least two pads for the input of external signals and/or for the output of signals from said semiconductor device, at least two uncoupling buffers each connected to each one of said pads, at least one multiplexer connected to said pads by means of said uncoupling buffers and at least one memory element suitable to generate a configuration signal operating on said multiplexer and said uncoupling buffers to selectively enable one or the other of said pads.

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