Patents Represented by Law Firm Whitham & Marhoeffer
  • Patent number: 5263031
    Abstract: In a semiconductor integrated circuit including therein an electrically writable non-volatile semiconductor memory (10) and an error detection and correction circuit (3) for detecting and correcting an error of data read out from the semiconductor memory, there is provided an output selection register (6) set with a register setting signal (RS) so as to output a selection signal (R) having the level of the stored content of the output selection register itself. A selection signal switching circuit (7) receives the selection signal (R) from the output selection register (6) and another selection signal (S) from an output selection memory cell section (4) of the non-volatile semiconductor memory (10). The selection signal switching circuit (7) selects one of the received selection signals in accordance with a test signal (TS) and outputs the selected selection signal (DS) to a data selection circuit (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Inoue