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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2008
Applicant:
Yasuhiro Tokunaga, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yasuhiro Tokunaga, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A semiconductor integrated circuit having an internal circuit group, which includes at least one internal circuit, includes a plurality of process monitoring circuits, each of which is disposed at a different location in the internal circuit group, each of the process monitoring circuits, which is operated in response to a power supply voltage, detecting monitoring data in the area where one of the process monitoring circuits is disposed, and a power supply voltage generating circuit generating the power supply voltage corresponding to the monitoring data, and supplying the power supply voltage to the internal circuit group.