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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jun Setogawa, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 ;
Abstract
An internal clock signal generating circuit includes a phase comparing circuit which is made active in accordance with a control signal SEN which becomes intermittently active in a power down mode from an operation permission signal generating circuit, receives an external clock signal and an output from a delay circuit, and compares phases of the signal and the output with each other, an address generating circuit for receiving a phase comparison result and generating a delay amount control signal for controlling a delay amount, and an address decoder for receiving an output of the delay circuit and generating a decode signal for controlling the delay amount.