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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 31, 1995
Shuji Kubota, Kanagawa, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a semiconductor integrated circuit provided with a circuit for testing an input buffer threshold voltage, an output node of a first logic gate having its output logic value determined by an output signal of an input buffer, and an output node of a second logic gate having its output logic value determined by a condition setting signal from an external source, are connected to a common signal line. When a standardized voltage for discriminating the threshold voltage is applied to the input buffer, if the input buffer malfunctions, the output signal of the first logic gate collides with the output signal of the second logic gate on the common signal line, so that a power supply current greatly increases.