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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Renesas Technology Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 ;
Abstract
During a burn-in test, each read selection gate, each write selection gate, a write control circuit, and a sense amplifier circuit are activated, and a read data bus precharge and equalize circuit and a global read data bus precharge and equalize circuit are inactivated. As a result, a voltage difference applied between a global write data bus pair is transferred to each of a write data bus pair, a bit line pair, a read data bus pair, and a global read data bus pair without involving a mode switching.