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US 10,706,898 B2Granted
Semiconductor apparatus and data processing system
AssigneeSK hynix Inc.
InventorsMyoung Seo Kim, Seung Yong Lee, Young Pyo Joo
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Abstract
A semiconductor apparatus may include: a pad unit including a plurality of pads; a memory cell array coupled to the pad unit through input/output signal lines; and a pad configuration control circuit configured to change a pad configuration of the pad unit by dividing the plurality of pads into a plurality of groups and setting the plurality of groups to different modes, respectively.
Claims20
A semiconductor apparatus comprising:
- a pad unit comprising a plurality of pads;
- a memory cell array coupled to the pad unit through input and output (input/output) signal lines;
- and
- a pad configuration control circuit configured to change a pad configuration of the pad unit by dividing the plurality of pads into groups and setting the groups to different modes, respectively.
1 more element
A semiconductor apparatus comprising:
- a pad unit comprising a plurality of pads;
- write and read paths coupled to the pad unit in common through first input and output (input/output) signal lines;
- a core block comprising a memory cell array, and coupled to the write and read paths through second input/output signal lines;
- and
- first and second switches coupled in parallel to each of the first input/output signal lines,
- wherein the first switch selectively couples a signal path from the pad unit to the write path according to a pad configuration control signal, and the second switch selectively couples a signal path from the read path to the pad unit according to the pad configuration control signal.
3 more elements
A data processing system comprising:
- a host configured to generate source signals according to a characteristic of an application corresponding to a user request and an application change frequency;
- and
- a semiconductor memory comprising a pad unit including a plurality of pads, and configured to change a pad configuration of the pad unit by dividing the plurality of pads into one or more groups according to the source signals and setting the one or more groups to different modes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.