Semiconductor chips including through electrodes and methods of testing the through electrodes
AssigneeSK hynix Inc.
InventorSun Myung Choi
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A semiconductor chip includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device stacked over the first semiconductor device. The second semiconductor device is electrically connected to the first semiconductor device via a plurality of through electrodes. In a test mode, the first semiconductor device is configured to drive a first pattern of logic levels and a second pattern of logic levels through the plurality of through electrodes, configured to compare logic levels of a plurality of test data generated by the first and second patterns from the first and second semiconductor devices to generate a detection signal indicating that the plurality of through electrodes operated normally or abnormally.
Claims8
A semiconductor chip comprising:
- a first semiconductor device;
- and
- a second semiconductor device stacked over the first semiconductor device and electrically connected to the first semiconductor device via a plurality of through electrodes,
- wherein in a test mode, the first semiconductor device is configured to drive a first pattern of logic levels and a second pattern of logic levels through the plurality of through electrodes, configured to compare logic levels of a plurality of test data generated by the first and second patterns from the first and second semiconductor devices to generate a detection signal indicating that the plurality of through electrodes operated normally or abnormally, and
- wherein the detection signal indicates that the plurality of through electrodes operated normally when the detection signal is a toggling signal;
- and
- wherein the detection signal indicates that the plurality of through electrodes operated abnormally, by generating an incorrect logic level, when the detection signal has a fixed logic level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.