Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Computer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Toshihiro Okabe

Akira Yamagiwa

Noboru Masuda

Kiyokazu Arai

Takehisa Hayashi

Kenichi Ishibashi

Toshio Doi

Kazuo Koide

Michiharu Honda

Kazunori Nakajima

Mitsuo Asai

Bunichi Fujita

Michio Asano

Seiichi Kawashima

Kazumichi Yamamoto

Makio Uchida

Mikio Yamagishi

Masatoshi Kawashima

Koichi Ikeda

Kokichi Aomori

Yuichi Onodera

Munehiro Sasakawa

Yasuhiro Matsuura

Kozi Nakamura

A variable delay circuit including delay devices each having a plurality of delay units connected successively, only some of the delay units of the delay devices being connected to a signal transmission line, wherein a delay time is controlled by activating or inactivating the plurality of delay units according to control signals applied to control input terminals provided respectively for said plurality of delay units. A clock signal supply device for supplying a second clock signal to a logic circuit block, said clock signal supply device having a clock signal generator for generating a first clock signal and a reference signal and a phase adjusting means for adjusting the phase of the first clock signal phased on a phase difference between the first clock signal and the reference signal and outputting the phase-adjusted signal as a second clock signal, wherein the phase adjusting unit comprises a first variable delay circuit capable of delay operation in initial adjustment of the first clock signal, a second variable delay circuit, disposed in series with the first variable delay circuit, for performing the delay operation after the initial adjustment, and control circuits for controlling delay times of the first and second variable delay circuits.

Variable delay circuit and clock signal supply unit using the same

A data processing apparatus, including a number of electronic circuit units, in which high-speed data can be transmitted among the electronic circuit units. When data is transmitted from one electronic circuit unit to another electronic circuit unit, a clock signal to fetch the data in the sink side electronic circuit unit is transmitted from the source side electronic circuit unit via a clock signal line having the same signal propagation delay characteristics as those of the data signal line.

System for connecting plurality of electronic units to data and clock

The present invention relates to an integrated circuit comprising a semiconductor chip having thereon a logical function portion for realizing logical function and at least one power supply point for supplying electric power to the logical function portion, and at least one first, second and third power trunk line are arranged on the chip for supplying electric power from the power supply point to the logical function portion. The second power trunk line is disposed in an area in which the logical function portion of the chip is disposed. The first power trunk line is disposed between the power supply point and the second power trunk line to connect the second power trunk line with the power supply point. The third trunk line is connected at at least one end to the second trunk line and is disposed in the logical function portion for supplying electric power to the logical function portion.

Integrated circuit having power trunk line and method for layout of

A tape carrier package has a base film and leads formed on one side of the base film. The base film defines a device hole therein, while the leads have outer portions to be bonded to a substrate and inner lead portions extending into the device hole. The tape carrier package can be mounted on a substrate by applying a high-frequency electromagnetic field to a portion of each lead which is to be bonded to the substrate, whereby solder applied to the lead or substrate in advance is heated and melted to bond the package to the substrate.

Tape carrier package

A method for wiring a power supply for a large-scale integrated circuit. The power supply wires define a power supply grid surrounding lattice openings with fixed longitudinal and transverse lattice dimensions. The wire width is determined based on the integrated circuit chip size, the number of function circuits to be on the integrated circuit, the electrical power requirements of the function circuits, and the fixed longitudinal and transverse lattice dimensions. Longitudinal and transverse locations of the power supply wires chips are determined based on the determined wire width and the fixed longitudinal and transverse dimensions of the lattice openings. Alternatively, the wire width may be fixed and the dimensions of the lattice openings determined based on the integrated circuit chip size, the number of function circuits, the electrical power requirements of the function circuits and that wire width. When the electrical power requirement of a function circuit is significantly larger than that of another function circuit, the wire width may be increased in the vicinity of the one function circuit. When the function circuits include a large-scale function block, a wire width around a region of the integrated circuit chip in which the large-scale block is to be disposed may be selected which results in a wire area equal to the wire area of the power supply wire that would occupy the particular region for usual function circuits.

Method of wiring for power supply to large-scale integrated circuit

This invention discloses a clock distribution system which distributes a first clock signal as a reference clock as the reference for the phase and frequency to each processing unit (e.g. LSI) and generates a multi-phase second clock signal to be used in each processing unit by a delay circuit group whose delay time is adjusted. The clock distribution system comprises a clock generation block for generating a one-phase reference clock; a first control loop for comparing the phase of the reference clock with the phase of a feedback signal and adjusting the phase of the reference clock so that their phases are in agreement; and a second control loop including a delay circuit group consisting of a plurality of variable delay circuits to which the reference clock phase-adjusted by the first control loop is inputted and which are connected in series, and means for generating a multi-phase clock signal by use of the output signal of each of the plurality of variable delay circuits and the phase-adjusted referencde clock, controlling the delay time of the plurality of variable delay circuits so as to accomplish a predetermined relation with the period of the phase-adjusted reference clock and applying one of the multi-phase clock signals as the feedback signal described above to the first control loop.

High speed clock distribution system

A clock drive circuit device including clock drive circuits, each of which outputs a clock signal according to a predetermined logic function corresponding to the potential of condition signals, a circuit portion for executing the logic function which is composed of FETs, and has at least one FET for adjusting the FET configuration so that the number of FETs connected in series between a clock output terminal and a power source terminal as well as a ground terminal have predetermined values, respectively.

Clock drive circuit

Multi-phase clock signals are delivered to a large number of load circuits scattered on a chip from clock signal input pins through at least three stage buffer circuits. The first stage buffer circuits are arranged in the neighborhood of the input pins, and the second stage buffer circuits are arranged on the central portion of the chip. Equivalent-length wirings are made between the successive two stage buffer circuits and the same number of subsequent stage buffer circuit are connected with each of certain stage buffer circuits for the respective phases so as to provide equal resistances and equal capacitances. Equivalent-length wirings are also made between final stage buffer circuits and the corresponding load circuits, and the same number of load circuits are connected with each final stage buffer circuit. Thus, equal delay times are provided in the clock signal paths from the input pins to the load circuits at the respective phases.

Multiphase clock distribution for VLSI chip

In an information processing system utilizing a virtual storage, an address translation look-aside buffer for translating a logical address into a physical address is provided to access the main storage by use of the translated physical address. The processing system has a storage control unit for controlling the operation of the address translation look-aside buffer and the main storage, which are connected with a common bus through which addresses and data are transferred on a time-division basis. The storage control unit has a bus control circuit for controlling the common bus so that addresses are transferred from the translation look-aside buffer and data is transferred to the main storage on the common bus at different times.

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Toshihiro Okabe