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US 2015/0155869 A1Published application
Semiconductor apparatus and reduced current and power consumption
AssigneeSK hynix Inc.
InventorHyun Woo LEE
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Abstract
A semiconductor apparatus may include a mode control circuit configured to output differential output signals which swing in a current mode logic (CML) area and a first control signal, in response to a power-down mode signal; a first circuit unit configured to be provided with the differential output signals, and operate in a power-down mode; and a second circuit unit configured to be provided with the differential output signals, and be interrupted in its operation in the power-down mode.
Claims20
A semiconductor apparatus comprising:
- a mode control circuit configured to output differential output signals which swing in a current mode logic (CML) area and a first control signal, in response to a power-down mode signal;
- a first circuit unit configured to be provided with the differential output signals, and operate in a power-down mode;
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- a second circuit unit configured to be provided with the differential output signals, and be interrupted in its operation in the power-down mode.
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The semiconductor apparatus comprising:
- a control signal generation unit configured to output a first control signal and a second control signal in response to a power-down mode signal;
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- a CML circuit unit configured to generate first and second output signals which swing in a current mode logic (CML) area, as differential output signals, in response to the second control signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.