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Patent No.:

US 7868684 B1

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Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011

Filed:

Feb. 19, 2009
Applicant:

Yuki Hosoe, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yuki Hosoe, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Elpida Memory, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/10 (2006.01); G05F 3/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A semiconductor device includes a voltage step-up circuit and a control circuit. The voltage step-up circuit includes at least a first capacitor and a second capacitor which generate an internal power supply voltage. The control circuit controls the voltage step-up circuit. The control circuit connects the first and second capacitors in series to perform a first voltage step-up operation and connects the first and second capacitors in parallel to perform a second voltage step-up operation. The voltage step-up circuit generates a first stepped-up voltage in the first voltage step-up operation and generates a second stepped-up voltage in the second voltage step-up operation. The circuit area of the voltage step-up circuit with a plurality of stepped-up levels is reduced.


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Hosoe, Yuki. (2011). Semiconductor device whose internal power supply voltage is generated by voltage step-up circuit (U.S. Patent No. 7868684). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7868684

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