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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1992
Tatsunori Murotani, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A semiconductor memory has a first internal circuit operated by an external source, a second internal circuit operated by an internal source which outputs an internal voltage lower than that of the external source and a voltage-down-converter supplying the internal source to the second internal circuit. The voltage-down-convertor includes a reference-voltage-source circuit and voltage-down-circuit. The reference-voltage-source circuit is made up of a standard-voltage-generation-circuit generating a standard voltage equal to a standard internal source voltage, a gate circuit outputting the standard voltage as the reference voltage when a control signal from outside is of a first logic level, a dividing circuit outputting voltages which are lower or higher than the standard internal source voltage and a selection circuit which selects one of the output voltages of the dividing circuit when the control signal is of a second logic level.