Renesas Electronics Corporation

Osamu Soma

Akira Uemura

Akihiro Nakahara

Kenji Amada

Hiroyuki Nakamura

Tadatoshi Danno

Atsushi Nishikizawa

Naohiro Yoshimura

The power control device reliably disconnects the current path of the failed output transistor. In particular, the power control device includes output transistors, an output terminal, bonding wires connecting the output transistors to the output terminal, output transistor driving circuits controlling the output of the output transistors, and a failure detection circuit detecting the failure of the output transistors. When the failure detection circuit detects the failure of the output transistors and outputs the failure detection signals, the output transistor drive circuits control the outputs of the output transistors so that a larger current flows through the bonding wires than when the failure is not detected.

Semiconductor device

A semiconductor device includes first and second semiconductor chips mounted on one package. In the first semiconductor chip, a current generation circuit generates a sense current in accordance with a load current and a fault current indicating that an abnormality detection circuit has detected an abnormality, and allows either one of the currents to flow through a current detecting resistor in accordance with presence or absence of detection of the abnormality. In the second semiconductor chip, a storage circuit stores a current value of the fault current obtained in an inspection process of the semiconductor device as a determination reference value. An arithmetic processing circuit sets a standard range based on the determination reference value, and determines presence or absence of detection of the abnormality based on whether or not a current value indicated by a digital signal of an analog-digital conversion circuit is included within the standard range.

Semiconductor device, electronic control unit and vehicle apparatus

A semiconductor device and electronic control device capable of shutting off the reverse current flow from a load to a power supply is provided. The power transistor QNis provided between the positive power supply terminal Pi(+) and the load-driving terminal Po(+), and has a source and a back-gate coupled to the positive power supply terminal Pi(+). The power transistor QNis provided in series with the power transistor QN, and its sources and backgates are coupled to the load-driving terminal Po(+). The booster CPcharges the gates of the power transistors QN. The gate discharge circuit DCGdischarges the gate charge of the power transistor QNto the source when the potential of the negative power supply terminal Pi(&#x2212;) is higher than the potential of the positive power supply terminal Pi(+).

Semiconductor device and electronic control device

A control method of a semiconductor device includes inspecting an electrical property of a current detection circuit in the first semiconductor chip, writing information on a correction equation obtained on the basis of an inspection result in a memory circuit of the second semiconductor chip, and correcting, with the second semiconductor chip, a detection result obtained by the current detection circuit on the basis of the information on the correction equation.

Current detection method of semiconductor device and semiconductor device

A sophisticated semiconductor device is provided. A semiconductor device including an IPD chip and an MCU chip which are included in one package. The IPD chip includes: a power transistor that drives an external load; a gate drive circuit that drives the power transistor; and a protection circuit that protects the power transistor from having a breakdown. The MCU chip includes an arithmetic processing unit that performs arithmetic processing based on detected data output from the protection circuit, and a storage unit that stores a program for the arithmetic processing unit. The MCU chip has a function of controlling operation of the power transistor according to the detected data.

A semiconductor device with the highly precise current detecting function is provided. Current detection is performed using a semiconductor device in which two semiconductor chips are mounted in one package. The first semiconductor chip is provided with an electric power supply transistor to supply power to a load via a load driving terminal, and a current detection circuit to detect a current flowing through the load driving terminal. In the inspection process of the semiconductor device, the electrical property of the current detection circuit in the first semiconductor chip is inspected, and the information on a correction equation obtained as the inspection result is written in a memory circuit of the second semiconductor chip. The second semiconductor chip corrects the detection result obtained by the current detection circuit based on the information on the correction equation written in the memory circuit concerned.

A semiconductor device includes first and second semiconductor chips, a plurality of leads, a plurality of wires, and a sealing body sealing those components. A first pad electrode, a second pad electrode, and an internal wiring electrically connected to the first and second electrode pads are formed on a main surface of the first semiconductor chip. A third pad electrode of the second semiconductor chip is electrically connected to the first electrode pad of the first semiconductor chip via a first wire, and the second electrode pad of the first semiconductor chip is electrically connected to a first lead via a second wire. A distance between the first lead and the first semiconductor chip is smaller than a distance between the first lead and the second semiconductor chip. The first electrode pad, the second electrode pad and the internal wiring are not connected to any circuit formed in the first semiconductor chip.

A semiconductor device includes: a drive circuit; a standby circuit; and a detection circuit. The drive circuit turns on an output transistor connected to a load based on an active input signal. The standby circuit intermittently outputs an output signal based on a non-active input signal. The detection circuit measures voltage of a load side of the output transistor based on the output signal and output a measurement result.

Semiconductor device which can detect abnormality

A power supply control circuit comprises an output transistor which controls supply of electric power to a load and a gate driving circuit which generates control signals 'a' and 'b' for controlling on/off of the output transistorbased on an external input signal. A transistordischarges a gate charge of the output transistor based on the control signals &#x201c;a&#x201d; and &#x201c;b&#x201d;, when turning off the output transistor. A transistordischarges more slowly than the transistor. A diode is coupled to the transistorin series and which cuts off a discharge path through the transistortransistor and the diode when the gate voltage of the output transistor falls to a voltage level higher than the sum of the power supply voltage Vcc and a threshold voltage of the output transistor, at a time of turning off the output transistor.

Power supply control circuit

A power supply control circuit comprises an output transistorwhich controls supply of electric power to a load and a gate driving circuit which generates control signals 'a' and 'b' for controlling on/off of the output transistor based on an external input signal. A first discharge path includes a first depletion-type N-channel MOS transistor provided between a gate and a source of the output transistor and discharges a gate charge of the output transistor based on the control signals, when turning off the output transistor. A second discharge path includes a first depletion-type N-channel MOS transistor discharges more slowly than the first discharge path. A diode is coupled to the first depletion-type N-channel MOS transistor in series and detects that a gate voltage of the output transistor has fallen to a prescribed voltage level, and cuts off a first discharge path.

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Osamu Soma