Semiconductor device including voltage generator
OwnerIn Soo WANGinventor
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Abstract
A semiconductor device includes a voltage generator. The voltage generator includes a detection circuit having a number of voltage detection units, each detection unit including a different number of resistors compared to other detection units and each detection unit outputting a respective voltage, a voltage comparison circuit configured to compare a constant voltage to each respective divided voltage outputted from detection units of the detection circuit and to output a number of control signals in response to the comparison, and a reference voltage generator configured to generate a reference voltage in response to the control signals.
Claims26
A semiconductor device comprising a voltage generator, the voltage generator including:
- a detection circuit having a number of voltage detection units, each detection unit including a different number of resistors compared to other voltage detection units and each voltage detection unit outputting a respective voltage;
- a voltage comparison circuit configured to compare a constant voltage to each respective voltage outputted from the detection units of the detection circuit, and to output a number of control signals in response to the comparison;
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- a reference voltage generator configured to generate a reference voltage in response to the control signals.
A semiconductor device comprising a voltage generator, the voltage generator including:
- a detection circuit having a number of voltage detection units, each detection unit including a different number of resistors compared to other detection units and each detection unit outputting a respective voltage;
- a voltage comparison circuit configured to compare a constant voltage to each respective voltage outputted by the detection units of the detection circuit, and to output a number of control signals in response to the comparison;
- a reference voltage generator configured to generate a reference voltage in response to the control signals;
- a clock signal generator configured to generate a clock signal in response to the reference voltage;
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- a pump unit configured to generate a high voltage in response to the clock signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.