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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2002
Takeshi Suzuki, Tachikawa, JP;
Shigeru Nakahara, Musashimurayama, JP;
Keiichi Higeta, Hamura, JP;
Takeshi Kusunoki, Tachikawa, JP;
Other;
Abstract
A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a first variable delay circuit which delays a timing signal for activating a sense amplifier which is supplied with a signal read out from a memory array and amplifies the signal so that a timing difference between a dummy signal read out from a dummy memory cell and the timing signal of the sense amplifier is detected by a detection circuit to be made small in accordance with an output of the detection circuit, and a second variable delay circuit which adjusts a relative timing difference between the dummy signal and the timing signal of the sense amplifier.