Abstract: One embodiment of the invention provides an integrated circuit having a plurality of output drivers for driving signals from the integrated circuit and having a plurality of supply terminals to apply a supply voltage to the integrated circuit, the plurality of output drivers being supplied by the supply voltage, wherein the plurality of output drivers have a first output driver group having one or a plurality of the output drivers and a second output driver group having one or a plurality of the output drivers, wherein a first supply line segment is provided to supply the output drivers of the first output driver group, and a second supply line segment is provided to supply the output drivers of the second output driver group, wherein the first supply line segment may be supplied with the supply voltage via a first supply terminal and the second supply line segment may be supplied with the supply voltage via a second supply terminal, wherein the first supply line segment is electrically connected to the secon

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating semiconductor chips, particularly memory chips, which are arranged in groups on modules (M1-M4) which are connected to a common data bus (DQ), where each semiconductor chip (IC1-IC36) on each module (M1-M4) is connected to at least one data line (DQ1-DQ72) in the data bus (DQ), having the following method steps: