Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Ji-Kyum Kim

Min-Su Kim

Dae-Seong Lee

Jong-Woo Kim

Uk-Rae Cho

Hyun Shik Lee

Gun-Ok Jung

Chung-Hee Kim

Ju-Hyun Kang

Emil Kagramanyan

Yong-Jin Yoon

An integrated circuit includes a complex logic cell. The complex logic cell includes a first logic circuit providing a first output signal from a first input signal group and a common input signal group, and a second logic circuit providing a second output signal from a second input signal group and the common input signal group. The first and second logic circuits respectively include first and second transistors formed from a gate electrode, the gate electrode extending in a first direction and receiving a first common input signal of the common input signal group.

Integrated circuit including complex logic cell

A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a scan enable (SE) inverter and a clock (CK) inverter on a substrate, a first multiplex part, and a second multiplex part. The SE inverter and the CK inverter are aligned in a first direction. The first multiplex part includes a first wiring and a first transistor, the first wiring is connected to a power supply voltage part of the SE inverter, and the first wiring and the first transistor share a source region contacting the first wiring. The second multiplex part includes a second wiring and a second transistor, the second wiring is connected to a power supply voltage part of the CK inverter, and the second wiring and the second transistor share a source region contacting the second wiring. The SE inverter and the CK inverter are aligned in a first direction to each other.

Semiconductor integrated circuits

Provided are a semiconductor device and a method for operating a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a clock generating unit receiving a reference clock and generating first and second clocks that are different from each other from the reference clock; a first latch configured to receive input data based on the first clock and to output the input data as first output data; and a second latch configured to receive the first output data based on the second clock and to output the first output data as second output data, wherein a first edge of the first clock does not overlap a first edge of the second clock, and at least a part of a second edge of the first clock overlaps a second edge of the second clock.

Semiconductor device and method for operating the same

An integrated circuit device includes a clock delay circuit configured to receive a clock signal and a pulse signal and to produce an output signal therefrom. The clock delay circuit is configured to transition the output signal to a first state responsive to a first state of the clock signal and to transition the output signal to a second state responsive to a first state transition of the pulse signal. The integrated circuit device further includes a pulse generator circuit configured to receive the clock signal and the output signal and to produce the pulse signal therefrom. The pulse generator circuit is configured to generate the first state transition in the pulse signal responsive to a transition of the clock signal to a second state and to generate a second state transition in the pulse signal responsive to the transition of the output signal to the second state.

Integrated circuit pulse generators

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