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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:
Oct. 29, 2002

Filed:

Jul. 23, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

Takashi Hayasaka, Hyogo, JP;

Yoshikazu Miyawaki, Hyogo, JP;

Atsushi Ohba, Hyogo, JP;

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

At the time of writing data, a tester outputs a chip enable signal /CE of the L level and selection signals of the L level to simultaneously make semiconductor memory devices active. At the time of reading data, the tester outputs the chip enable signal of the L level to the semiconductor memory devices, and selectively switches the logic level of a selection signal to be outputted to some semiconductor memory devices and that of the selection signal to be outputted to the other semiconductor memory devices to the L level. In such a manner, a number of semiconductor memory devices can be tested without increasing the number of pins of the tester.


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