Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sang-Lok Kim

Byung-Hoon Jeong

Jeong-Don Ihm

Tae-Sung Lee

Jae-Yong Jeong

Young-Don Choi

Min-Jae Lee

Seon-Kyoo Lee

Dae-Woon Kang

Kyoung-Tae Kang

Dae-hoon Na

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die, a defect detection structure and an input-output circuit. The semiconductor die includes a central region and a peripheral region surrounding the central region. The peripheral region includes a left-bottom corner region, a left-upper corner region, a right-upper corner region and a right-bottom corner region. The defect detection structure is formed in the peripheral region. The defect detection structure includes a first conduction loop in the left-bottom corner region, a second conduction loop in the right-bottom corner region, a third conduction loop in the left-bottom corner region and the left-upper corner region and a fourth conduction loop in the right-bottom corner region and the right-upper corner region. The input-output circuit is electrically connected to end nodes of the first conduction loop, the second conduction loop, the third conduction loop and the fourth conduction loop.

Defect detection structure of a semiconductor die, semiconductor device including the same and method of detecting defects in semiconductor die

A semiconductor chip, a test system, and a method of testing the semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip includes a pulse generator configured to generate a test pulse in response to a test request; a logic chain comprising a plurality of logic devices serially connected to each other and transferring the test pulse sequentially; and a detector configured to detect a logic level of an output signal of each of the logic devices and output a detection result indicating a degree of an inter-symbol interference (ISI).

Semiconductor chip, test system, and method of testing the semiconductor chip

A clock signal processor includes a duty cycle corrector, a switch point calculator, and a multiplexer. The duty cycle corrector generates a second clock signal by modifying a duty cycle of a first clock signal. The switch point calculator activates a switch signal at an end of a latency period in which a read command is provided to a non-volatile memory device and an invalid data is read from the non-volatile memory device. The multiplexer outputs one of the first and second clock signals as a third clock signal based on the switch signal.

Clock signal processor and non-volatile memory device including the same

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Sang-Lok Kim