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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:
Feb. 06, 2001

Filed:

May. 18, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:

Tetsushi Hoshita, Hyogo, JP;

Yuto Ikeda, Hyogo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
Abstract

A precharge control circuit controls on/off of transfer gates to set a signal level of a precharge control signal in accordance with a level of a control signal input to a precharge command input pad when a write recovery test signal is active. In a normal operation, the precharge control circuit deactivates the write recovery test signal to set the signal level of the precharge control signal in accordance with a combination of control signals. Consequently, the precharge operation can be started in accordance with an arbitrary control signal generated by an external memory tester or the like in a test mode, and thereby evaluation of a write recovery time can be executed.


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