Semiconductor memory device with signal aligning circuit
AssigneeHynix Semiconductor Inc.
InventorsHwang Hur, Chang-Ho Do
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Abstract
A signal aligning circuit includes a plurality of pads receiving input signals in parallel 1 bit by 1 bit; a first transferring unit for transferring the input signals as first signals in synchronization with a first clock signal of an internal clock, and transferring the input signals as second signals in synchronization with a second clock signal of the internal clock; a second transferring unit for transferring the first signals in synchronization with the second clock signal of the internal clock; and an aligning unit for aligning the first and second signals transferred from the first and second transferring units and outputting the aligned signal as output signals.
Claims13
A signal aligning circuit, comprising:
- a plurality of pads receiving input signals in parallel 1 bit by 1 bit;
- a first transferring unit for transferring the input signals as first signals in synchronization with a first clock of an internal clock, and transferring the input signals as second signals in synchronization with a second clock of the internal clock;
- a second transferring unit for transferring the first signals in synchronization with the second clock of the internal clock;
- an aligning unit for outputting the first signals transferred from the second transferring unit and the second signals transferred from the first transferring unit to be synchronized in response to a synchronization signal delayed by a first delay value from the rising edge of the second clock of the internal clock;
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- an initialization signal generator for initializing the first and second transferring units after a delay of a second delay value greater than the first delay value from the rising edge of the second clock of the internal clock,
- wherein the initialization signal generator includes:
- a first D flip-flop for transferring a power supply voltage in synchronization with the rising edge of the first clock of the internal clock;
- a second D flip-flop for transferring an output of the first D flip-flop in synchronization with the rising edge of the second clock of the internal clock;
- a first delay unit for delaying an output of the second D flip-flop by a third delay value less than the first delay value;
- a second delay unit for delaying an output of the first delay unit by a fourth delay value having a delay time given by subtracting the third delay value from the second delay value;
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- an inverter for inverting a phase of the output of the second delay unit to output an initialization signal for initializing the shift register.
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