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US 8,942,021 B2Granted
Semiconductor device
AssigneeSK hynix Inc.
InventorTae-Kyun Kim
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Abstract
A semiconductor device includes: an I/O circuit configured to input/output a data signal; a plurality of internal circuits configured to transmit and receive the data signal to/from the I/O circuit; and a path provider configured to select one of a direct path to a target internal circuit or an indirect path to the target internal circuit that is longer than the direct path in response to one or more path control signals and use the selected path when the data signal is transmitted between the I/O circuit and the plurality of internal circuits.
Claims19
A semiconductor device comprising:
- an I/O circuit configured to input/output a data signal;
- a plurality of internal circuits configured to transmit and receive the data signal to/from the I/O circuit;
- a path provider configured to select one of a direct path to a target internal circuit or an indirect path to the target internal circuit that is longer than the direct path in response to one or more path control signals and use the selected path when the data signal is transmitted between the I/O circuit and the plurality of internal circuits;
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- a path control signal generation unit suitable for generating one or more path control signals in response to internal circuit selection signals and first and second write control signals.
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A semiconductor device comprising:
- an I/O circuit configured to input/output data;
- a plurality of banks configured to store data transferred from the I/O circuit and provide stored data to the I/O circuit;
- a path provider configured to provide an direct path to a target bank or an indirect path to the target bank that is longer than the direct path in response to a plurality of path control signal when data are transmitted between the I/O circuit and the plurality of banks;
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- a path control signal generation unit suitable for generating one or more path control signals in response to internal circuit selection signals and first and second write control signals.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.