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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 23, 1998
Masayuki Ohashi, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A semiconductor integrated circuit device is responsive to a potential level applied to a signal pad connected to a mode changer, and the mode changer causes a mode selector to change a control signal between a first level indicative of a certain combination of sub-circuits of a main circuit selected before separation of the semiconductor chip from a master slice and a second level indicative of another combination of the sub-circuits not selected by a customer; when the manufacturer evaluates the semiconductor integrated circuit device, the manufacturer changes the potential level at the signal pad, and carries out a test for the certain combination and another combination; when the semiconductor chip is sealed in a package, the signal pad is electrically isolated from a source of potential level, and the control signal is fixed to the first level.