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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2011
Applicants:
Kazuhiko Kajigaya, Tokyo, JP;
Tomonori Sekiguchi, London, GB;
Kazuo Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Elpida Memory, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A semiconductor device includes a delay buffer, and a pipeline control circuit. The pipeline control circuit controls the delay buffer to hold read data from outputting to a read/write bus for each of banks based on a read command to the each bank while the pipeline control circuit controlling the delay buffer to output write data to the read/write bus, when a next command to the each bank is a write command for the write data. The read/write bus is common to the banks.