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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 01, 2016
Applicant:

Renesas Electronics Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Akira Uemura, Tokyo, JP;

Osamu Soma, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/26 (2020.01); H02H 1/00 (2006.01); H01L 27/02 (2006.01); H01L 27/06 (2006.01); H01L 25/065 (2006.01); H01L 25/18 (2006.01); H01L 23/495 (2006.01); G01R 31/00 (2006.01); G01K 13/00 (2006.01); B60L 1/16 (2006.01); G01K 7/01 (2006.01); G01K 3/00 (2006.01); H02H 3/087 (2006.01); B60L 58/10 (2019.01); H01L 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/26 (2013.01); B60L 1/16 (2013.01); B60L 58/10 (2019.02); G01K 3/005 (2013.01); G01K 7/01 (2013.01); G01K 13/00 (2013.01); G01R 31/006 (2013.01); H01L 23/49541 (2013.01); H01L 23/49575 (2013.01); H01L 25/0655 (2013.01); H01L 25/18 (2013.01); H01L 27/0207 (2013.01); H01L 27/0617 (2013.01); H02H 1/0007 (2013.01); H02H 3/087 (2013.01); H01L 24/48 (2013.01); H01L 27/0248 (2013.01); H01L 2224/48247 (2013.01); H01L 2924/00014 (2013.01); H01L 2924/1207 (2013.01); H01L 2924/13091 (2013.01); H01L 2924/1426 (2013.01); H01L 2924/1434 (2013.01); H01L 2924/14253 (2013.01); Y02T 10/705 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7005 (2013.01);
Abstract

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.


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