Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Ryubi Okuda

Natsuki Kushiyama

Toshihiko Himeno

Hiroshige Fujii

Fujio Ishihara

This invention concerns a semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising a plurality of circuit elements arranged in a chip and operating in response to a same clock signal; clock buffers arranged at intersecting points decided based on positions of the plurality of circuit elements, the intersecting points being included in intersecting points of a pseudo mesh virtually assumed to cover up a region in the chip including the plurality of circuit elements; and a main wiring transmitting the clock signal to the clock buffers.

Semiconductor integrated circuit device having clock buffers and method for arranging the clock buffers on the device

A driver circuit disclosed herein comprises a first inverter which comprises: a first transistor which is connected between a first power supply with a first voltage and a first output node; a second transistor which is connected between the first output node and a second power supply with a second voltage; and a voltage maintaining circuit which is provided between the second power supply and the second transistor and which maintains a voltage of the first output node in the vicinity of a threshold voltage of a transistor which is connected to the first output node even when the second transistor is turned on.

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Ryubi Okuda