Semiconductor device
AssigneeNEC Electronics Corporation
InventorHideki Sugimoto
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Abstract
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an output stage circuit including a first conductive type first transistor and a second conductive type second transistor, the first conductive type first transistor being connected between a first power supply terminal and an output terminal, the second conductive type second transistor being connected between a second power supply terminal and the output terminal and having a leak current larger than that of the first transistor, and an input stage circuit outputting a logic value setting the first transistor to a non-conductive state and setting the second transistor to a conductive state in accordance with a logic circuit disable signal input when the output stage circuit is in a disable state.
Claims8
A semiconductor device comprising:
- an output stage circuit including a first conductive type first transistor and a second conductive type second transistor, the first conductive type first transistor being connected between a first power supply terminal and an output terminal, the second conductive type second transistor being connected between a second power supply terminal and the output terminal and having a leak current larger than that of the first transistor;
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- an input stage circuit outputting a logic value setting the first transistor to a non-conductive state and setting the second transistor to a conductive state in accordance with a logic circuit disable signal input when the output stage circuit is in a disable state, wherein the input stage circuit comprises an output fixing circuit fixing an output of the input stage circuit,
- wherein the output fixing circuit comprises a third transistor of the first conductive type and a fourth transistor of the second conductive type, gates of the third and fourth transistors connected to each other,
- wherein the fourth transistor is connected between the second power supply and the input terminal of the output stage converter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.