Semiconductor integrated circuit
AssigneeNEC Electronics Corporation
InventorHitoshi Ishikuri
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AssigneeNEC Electronics Corporation
InventorHitoshi Ishikuri
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A semiconductor integrated circuit (100) that may determine whether or not a power supply voltage has dropped to a level that data integrity in a RAM portion (15) may be lost has been disclosed. Semiconductor integrated circuit (100) may include a power on clear (POC) circuit (1), a low voltage detecting circuit (2), a RAM data destruction preventing block (3), a RAM portion (15), and a combination circuit (4). POC circuit (1) may detect when a power supply potential is below a predetermined voltage and provide a reset signal to RAM data destruction preventing block (3). RAM data destruction preventing block (3) may prevent access to memory cells (20) in RAM portion (15) in response to the reset signal. Low voltage detecting circuit (2) may determine if the power supply potential may have dropped below a data holding voltage. In this way, data may only be rewritten to RAM portion (15) after a reset operation if data integrity may be lost.
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