Patents by Inventor Masato Matsumiya

Masato Matsumiya has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8687456
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of N external ports, each of which receives commands, and an internal circuit which performs at least N access operations during a minimum interval of the commands that are input into one of the external ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
    Inventors: Ayako Sato, Masato Matsumiya
  • Publication number: 20130205100
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of N external ports, each of which receives commands, and an internal circuit which performs at least N access operations during a minimum interval of the commands that are input into one of the external ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED
    Inventors: Ayako Sato, Masato Matsumiya
  • Publication number: 20110141795
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of N external ports, each of which receives commands, and an internal circuit which performs at least N access operations during a minimum interval of the commands that are input into one of the external ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasurou MATSUZAKI, Takaaki SUZUKI, Masafumi YAMAZAKI, Kenichi KAWASAKI, Shinnosuke KAMATA, Ayako SATO, Masato MATSUMIYA
  • Patent number: 7911825
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of N external ports, each of which receives commands, and an internal circuit which performs at least N access operations during a minimum interval of the commands that are input into one of the external ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasurou Matsuzaki, Takaaki Suzuki, Masafumi Yamazaki, Kenichi Kawasaki, Shinnosuke Kamata, Ayako Sato, Masato Matsumiya
  • Publication number: 20100321983
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a word line drive circuit for resetting the word line by driving the word line connected to a memory cell and is constituted so as to switch a reset level of the word line drive circuit, which is set at the time of the reset operation of the word line, between a first potential such as a ground potential and a second potential such as a negative potential. Further, a semiconductor device including a memory cell array formed by arranging a plurality of memory cells and a word line reset level generating circuit for generating a negative potential makes it possible to vary the amount of a current supply of the word line reset level generating circuit when non-selected word lines are set to a negative potential by applying the output of the word line reset level generating circuit to the non-selected word lines, and varies the amount of the current supply of the negative potential in accordance with the operation of the memory cell array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: FUJITSU MICROELECTRONICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Masato Takita, Masato Matsumiya, Satoshi Eto, Toshikazu Nakamura, Masatomo Hasegawa, Ayako Kitamoto, Kuninori Kawabata, Hideki Kanou, Toru Koga, Yuki Ishii, Shinichi Yamada, Kaoru Mori
  • Publication number: 20100220540
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a word line drive circuit for resetting the word line by driving the word line connected to a memory cell and is constituted so as to switch a reset level of the word line drive circuit, which is set at the time of the reset operation of the word line, between a first potential such as a ground potential and a second potential such as a negative potential. Further, a semiconductor device including a memory cell array formed by arranging a plurality of memory cells and a word line reset level generating circuit for generating a negative potential makes it possible to vary the amount of a current supply of the word line reset level generating circuit when non-selected word lines are set to a negative potential by applying the output of the word line reset level generating circuit to the non-selected word lines, and varies the amount of the current supply of the negative potential in accordance with the operation of the memory cell array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: FUJISU MICROELECTRONICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Masato Takita, Masato Matsumiya, Satoshi Eto, Toshikazu Nakamura, Masatomo Hasegawa, Ayako Kitamoto, Kuninori Kawabata, Hideki Kanou, Toru Koga, Yuki Ishii, Shinichi Yamada, Kaoru Mori
  • Patent number: 7706209
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, including a word line driver for driving a word line connected to a memory cell in a memory cell array and for resetting the word line when the memory cell changes from an activated to a standby state. The reset level of the word line driver is set when resetting of the word line is performed, and may be switched between first and second potentials. A word line reset level generating circuit varies the amount of negative potential current supply in accordance with memory cell array operating conditions. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of power source circuits, each having an oscillation circuit and a capacitor, for driving the capacitor via an oscillation signal outputted by the oscillation circuit. At least some power source circuits share a common oscillation circuit, and different capacitors are driven via the common oscillation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited
    Inventors: Masato Takita, Masato Matsumiya, Satoshi Eto, Toshikazu Nakamura, Masatomo Hasegawa, Ayako Kitamoto, Kuninori Kawabata, Hideki Kanou, Toru Koga, Yuki Ishii, Shinichi Yamada, Kaoru Mori
  • Patent number: 7459960
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a semiconductor integrated circuit device and adjustment method of the same semiconductor integrated circuit device, capable of adjusting an analog signal outputted from an incorporated analog signal generating section without outputting it outside as an analog value. An analog signal AOUT is outputted from an analog signal generating section 3 in which an adjustment signal AD is inputted. The analog signal AOUT is inputted to a judgment section 1, in which it is compared and judged with a predetermined value and then a judgment signal JG is outputted. The judgment signal JG acts on a predetermined signal storing section 4 as an internal signal and the adjustment signal AD is fetched into the predetermined signal storing section 4. Further, the judgment signal JG is outputted as digital signal through an external terminal T2 and an external tester device acquires the adjustment signal and stores the acquired adjustment signal in the predetermined signal storing section 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yasushige Ogawa, Yoshiyuki Ishida, Masato Matsumiya
  • Patent number: 7325173
    Abstract: During a first data compression test mode which disables an error correction function, first test data are written to a first regular memory block. Second test data are written to not only a second regular memory block, but a parity memory block. By changing the number of bits distributed to the first and second test data (compression rate of data), a data compression test for a parity memory block can be performed without need to increase the number of test terminals. As a result, the test time can be decreased and the test cost can be decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Akira Kikutake, Masato Matsumiya, Yasuhiro Onishi
  • Patent number: 7297996
    Abstract: A twin-cell type semiconductor memory device in which the area of a chip can be reduced. In the twin-cell type semiconductor memory device for storing data in at least one pair of memory cells as complementary information, memory cells are arranged at each of a plurality of word lines at intervals at which bit lines are located. At least the one pair of memory cells, which have stored the complementary information and which indicate a plurality of areas each connected to a pair of bit lines, form a twin cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Ayako Sato, Masato Matsumiya, Satoshi Eto
  • Patent number: 7281155
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device having a shift redundancy function includes a switch circuit for changeably connecting a plurality of decode signal lines decoding an address signal to a plurality of selecting lines and redundancy selecting lines, and executes a switch operation for shifting at least one of a plurality of decode lines in the direction of a first redundancy selecting line positioned at one of the ends among a plurality of selecting lines or a second switch operation for shifting at least one of the decode lines in the direction of a second redundancy selecting line positioned at the other end among the selecting lines or both of the first and second operations when any fault occurs in a plurality of selecting lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Eto, Masato Matsumiya, Toshimi Ikeda, Yuki Ishii, Akira Kikutake, Kuninori Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20060294322
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of N external ports, each of which receives commands, and an internal circuit which performs at least N access operations during a minimum interval of the commands that are input into one of the external ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Yasurou Matsuzaki, Takaaki Suzuki, Masafumi Yamazaki, Kenichi Kawasaki, Shinnosuke Kamata, Ayako Sato, Masato Matsumiya
  • Patent number: 7152150
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory core circuit, a command circuit which receives commands from an exterior of the device at intervals at least as long as a minimum command cycle, a timing generator configured to request a read access to the memory core circuit immediately after inputting of a read command if a command supplied from the exterior to the command circuit is the read command, to perform a read operation on the memory core circuit immediately after the request of the read access if there is no currently performed operation in the memory core circuit, to request a write access to the memory core circuit after data is fixed prior to an end of a command cycle during which a write command corresponding to the write access is entered from the exterior to the command circuit, to perform a write operation on the memory core circuit immediately after the request of the write access if there is no currently performed operation in the memory core circuit, and to control an order of a plurality
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Ayako Sato, Masato Matsumiya
  • Patent number: 7120761
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of N external ports, each of which receives commands, and an internal circuit which performs at least N access operations during a minimum interval of the commands that are input into one of the external ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yasurou Matsuzaki, Takaaki Suzuki, Masafumi Yamazaki, Kenichi Kawasaki, Shinnosuke Kamata, Ayako Sato, Masato Matsumiya
  • Publication number: 20060214724
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a semiconductor integrated circuit device and adjustment method of the same semiconductor integrated circuit device, capable of adjusting an analog signal outputted from an incorporated analog signal generating section without outputting it outside as an analog value. An analog signal AOUT is outputted from an analog signal generating section 3 in which an adjustment signal AD is inputted. The analog signal AOUT is inputted to a judgment section 1, in which it is compared and judged with a predetermined value and then a judgment signal JG is outputted. The judgment signal JG acts on a predetermined signal storing section 4 as an internal signal and the adjustment signal AD is fetched into the predetermined signal storing section 4. Further, the judgment signal JG is outputted as digital signal through an external terminal T2 and an external tester device acquires the adjustment signal and stores the acquired adjustment signal in the predetermined signal storing section 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasushige Ogawa, Yoshiyuki Ishida, Masato Matsumiya
  • Patent number: 7079443
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a word line drive circuit for resetting the word line by driving the word line connected to a memory cell and is constituted so as to switch a reset level of the word line drive circuit, which is set at the time of the reset operation of the word line, between a first potential such as a ground potential and a second potential such as a negative potential. Further, a semiconductor device including a memory cell array formed by arranging a plurality of memory cells and a word line reset level generating circuit for generating a negative potential makes it possible to vary the amount of a current supply of the word line reset level generating circuit when non-selected word lines are set to a negative potential by applying the output of the word line reset level generating circuit to the non-selected word lines, and varies the amount of the current supply of the negative potential in accordance with the operation of the memory cell array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masato Takita, Masato Matsumiya, Satoshi Eto, Toshikazu Nakamura, Masatomo Hasegawa, Ayako Kitamoto, Kuninori Kawabata, Hideki Kanou, Toru Koga, Yuki Ishii, Shinichi Yamada, Kaoru Mori
  • Publication number: 20060156213
    Abstract: During a first data compression test mode which disables an error correction function, first test data are written to a first regular memory block. Second test data are written to not only a second regular memory block, but a parity memory block. By changing the number of bits distributed to the first and second test data (compression rate of data), a data compression test for a parity memory block can be performed without need to increase the number of test terminals. As a result, the test time can be decreased and the test cost can be decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: Akira Kikutake, Masato Matsumiya, Yasuhiro Onishi
  • Publication number: 20060098523
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a word line drive circuit for resetting the word line by driving the word line connected to a memory cell and is constituted so as to switch a reset level of the word line drive circuit, which is set at the time of the reset operation of the word line, between a first potential such as a ground potential and a second potential such as a negative potential. Further, a semiconductor device including a memory cell array formed by arranging a plurality of memory cells and a word line reset level generating circuit for generating a negative potential makes it possible to vary the amount of a current supply of the word line reset level generating circuit when non-selected word lines are set to a negative potential by applying the output of the word line reset level generating circuit to the non-selected word lines, and varies the amount of the current supply of the negative potential in accordance with the operation of the memory cell array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventors: Masato Takita, Masato Matsumiya, Satoshi Eto, Toshikazu Nakamura, Masatomo Hasegawa, Ayako Kitamoto, Kuninori Kawabata, Hideki Kanou, Toru Koga, Yuki Ishii, Shinichi Yamada, Kaoru Mori
  • Publication number: 20060086951
    Abstract: A twin-cell type semiconductor memory device in which the area of a chip can be reduced. In the twin-cell type semiconductor memory device for storing data in at least one pair of memory cells as complementary information, memory cells are arranged at each of a plurality of word lines at intervals at which bit lines are located. At least the one pair of memory cells, which have stored the complementary information and which indicate a plurality of areas each connected to a pair of bit lines, form a twin cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventors: Ayako Sato, Masato Matsumiya, Satoshi Eto
  • Patent number: 7005693
    Abstract: A twin-cell type semiconductor memory device in which the area of a chip can be reduced. In the twin-cell type semiconductor memory device for storing data in at least one pair of memory cells as complementary information, memory cells are arranged at each of a plurality of word lines at intervals at which bit lines are located. At least the one pair of memory cells, which have stored the complementary information and which indicate a plurality of areas each connected to a pair of bit lines, form a twin cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Ayako Sato, Masato Matsumiya, Satoshi Eto