Semiconductor integrated circuit
AssigneeRenesas Technology Corp.
InventorsHidehiro Okada, Tetsuya Maruyama
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Abstract
A semiconductor integrated circuit is segmented into a plurality of blocks. Each block includes a switching transistor which is connected between the CMOS circuit of the block and the ground point and is adapted to shut off the current of the CMOS circuit by being controlled by a test mode control signal, and a leakage current detecting circuit which has a self-check function for the block. A signal which is the logical sum of the outputs of the leakage current detecting circuits of all blocks is the led out of the semiconductor integrated circuit through a common external output terminal.
Claims6
A semiconductor integrated circuit having a plurality of blocks and operating in a first mode or a second mode, each of said blocks comprising a MOS circuit, a switch circuit which is connected between said MOS circuit and a certain potential, and a leakage current detecting circuit which is connected to the connection node of said MOS circuit and said switch circuit and operating in said first mode to detect a leakage current flowing through said MOS circuit,
- said semiconductor integrated circuit further including a control circuit which operates on said switch circuits of said blocks to become conductive or non-conductive selectively.
A semiconductor integrated circuit which is segmented into a plurality of blocks, with switching transistors being connected between CMOS circuits in said blocks and a ground point and adapted to shut off, by being controlled by respective test mode control signals, the currents flowing through said CMOS circuits, said semiconductor integrated circuit including leakage current detecting circuits individually for said blocks which can detect leakage currents flowing through said CMOS circuits when said switching transistors are turned off, said switching transistors being adapted to turn on or off the currents flowing through said CMOs circuits in accordance with individual operation control signals so that the power consumption of each block can be reduced in a state of normal operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.