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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2005
Ken Arakawa, Kusatsu, JP;
Ken Arakawa, Kusatsu, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a memory cell array, a column gate array, a row decoder, a column decoder, a sense amplifier array, a read data bus, an output buffer, and a redundancy discrimination signal bus. In the case of redundancy replacement, the output buffer outputs read data excluding the read data of a memory cell block serving as an object of redundancy replacement. In the case of no redundancy replacement, the output buffer outputs read data excluding the read data of a redundant memory cell block. Then, the read data excluded by the output buffer is provided to the output buffer as an output enable signal. The transition timing of the read data excluded by the output buffer is set to be later than that of the other read data.