Patents by Inventor Masayoshi Yoshimura
Masayoshi Yoshimura 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).
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Patent number: 7348595Abstract: A semiconductor device constructed by mounting a plurality of chip intellectual properties (IPs) on a common semiconductor wiring substrate, a method for testing the device and a method for mounting the chip IPs. A silicon wiring substrate on which chip IPs can be mounted is provided. A circuit for a boundary scan test is formed on the silicon wiring substrate by connecting flip flops. The flip flops are connected to wiring and are arranged to test connections in the wiring. The entire IP On Super-Sub (IPOS) device or each chip IP may be arranged to facilitate a scan test, a built-in self-test (BIST), etc., on the internal circuit of the chip IP.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2004Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sadami Takeoka, Mitsuyasu Ohta, Osamu Ichikawa, Masayoshi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20070250284Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit of the present invention is provided with a clock control portion having a clock generation portion for generating a clock signal and an output command signal input portion for receiving a clock output command signal from the outside, and an internal circuit controlled by an output clock signal that is output from the clock control portion, and the clock control portion is configured so that it outputs the output clock signal to the internal circuit when a certain time period has passed from a time when the output command signal is received.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2007Publication date: October 25, 2007Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sadami Takeoka, Mitsuyasu Ohta, Osamu Ichikawa, Masayoshi Yoshimura, Takashi Ishimura
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Patent number: 7197725Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit of the present invention is provided with a clock control portion having a clock generation portion for generating a clock signal and an output command signal input portion for receiving a clock output command signal from the outside, and an internal circuit controlled by an output clock signal that is output from the clock control portion, and the clock control portion is configured so that it outputs the output clock signal to the internal circuit when a certain time period has passed from a time when the output command signal is received.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2002Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sadami Takeoka, Mitsuyasu Ohta, Osamu Ichikawa, Masayoshi Yoshimura, Takashi Ishimura
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Patent number: 7171600Abstract: An apparatus for testing a semiconductor device by mounting a plurality of chip intellectual properties (IPs) on a common semiconductor wiring substrate, including a silicon wiring substrate on which the chip IPs are mounted. A circuit for a boundary scan test is formed on the silicon wiring substrate by connecting flip-flops to wiring, which are arranged to test connections in the wiring. An IP on Super-Sub (IPOS) device or each chip IP may be arranged to facilitate a scan test, a built-in self-test (BIST), etc., on the internal circuit of the chip IP.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2004Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sadami Takeoka, Mitsuyasu Ohta, Osamu Ichikawa, Masayoshi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 7032196Abstract: A semiconductor device constructed by mounting a plurality of chip intellectual properties (IPs) on a common semiconductor wiring substrate, a method for testing the device and a method for mounting the chip IPs. A silicon wiring substrate on which chip IPs can be mounted is provided. A circuit for a boundary scan test is formed on the silicon wiring substrate by connecting flip flops. The flip flops are connected to wiring and are arranged to test connections in the wiring. The entire IP On Super-Sub (IPOS) device or each chip IP may be arranged to facilitate a scan test, a built-in self-test (BIST), etc., on the internal circuit of the chip IP.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2004Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sadami Takeoka, Mitsuyasu Ohta, Osamu Ichikawa, Masayoshi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20040199840Abstract: A semiconductor device constructed by mounting a plurality of chip intellectual properties (IPs) on a common semiconductor wiring substrate, a method for testing the device and a method for mounting the chip IPs. A silicon wiring substrate on which chip IPs can be mounted is provided. A circuit for a boundary scan test is formed on the silicon wiring substrate by connecting flip flops. The flip flops are connected to wiring and are arranged to test connections in the wiring. The entire IP On Super-Sub (IPOS) device or each chip IP may be arranged to facilitate a scan test, a built-in self-test (BIST), etc., on the internal circuit of the chip IP.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2004Publication date: October 7, 2004Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Sadami Takeoka, Mitsuyasu Ohta, Osamu Ichikawa, Masayoshi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20040197941Abstract: A semiconductor device constructed by mounting a plurality of chip intellectual properties (IPs) on a common semiconductor wiring substrate, a method for testing the device and a method for mounting the chip IPs. A silicon wiring substrate on which chip IPs can be mounted is provided. A circuit for a boundary scan test is formed on the silicon wiring substrate by connecting flip flops. The flip flops are connected to wiring and are arranged to test connections in the wiring. The entire IP On Super-Sub (IPOS) device or each chip IP may be arranged to facilitate a scan test, a built-in self-test (BIST), etc., on the internal circuit of the chip IP.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2004Publication date: October 7, 2004Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Sadami Takeoka, Mitsuyasu Ohta, Osamu Ichikawa, Masayoshi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20040195672Abstract: A semiconductor device constructed by mounting a plurality of chip intellectual properties (IPs) on a common semiconductor wiring substrate, a method for testing the device and a method for mounting the chip IPs. A silicon wiring substrate on which chip IPs can be mounted is provided. A circuit for a boundary scan test is formed on the silicon wiring substrate by connecting flip flops. The flip flops are connected to wiring and are arranged to test connections in the wiring. The entire IP On Super-Sub (IPOS) device or each chip IP may be arranged to facilitate a scan test, a built-in self-test (BIST), etc., on the internal circuit of the chip IP.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2004Publication date: October 7, 2004Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Sadami Takeoka, Mitsuyasu Ohta, Osamu Ichikawa, Masayoshi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 6734549Abstract: A semiconductor device constructed by mounting a plurality of chip intellectual properties (IPs) on a common semiconductor wiring substrate, a method for testing the device and a method for mounting the chip IPs. A silicon wiring substrate on which chip IPs can be mounted is provided. A circuit for a boundary scan test is formed on the silicon wiring substrate by connecting flip flops. The flip flops are connected to wiring and are arranged to test connections in the wiring. The entire IP On Super-Sub (IPOS) device or each chip IP may be arranged to facilitate a scan test, a built-in self-test (BIST), etc., on the internal circuit of the chip IP.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2002Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sadami Takeoka, Mitsuyasu Ohta, Osamu Ichikawa, Masayoshi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 6708315Abstract: A design for testability is applied so as to enable significant reduction in test time of an actual integrated circuit. First, an integrated circuit is full-scan designed on a block-by-block basis and test input patterns are generated (S11). Then, one of the blocks to which the design for testability has not been allocated is selected (S12), and a full-scan design is allocated thereto (S14). Test points are inserted into a block that has more than a prescribed number of parallel test input patterns when that block is full-scan designed (YES in S15) (S16).Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2001Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshinori Hosokawa, Masayoshi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20030025191Abstract: A semiconductor device constructed by mounting a plurality of chip intellectual properties (IPs) on a common semiconductor wiring substrate, a method for testing the device and a method for mounting the chip IPs. A silicon wiring substrate on which chip IPs can be mounted is provided. A circuit for a boundary scan test is formed on the silicon wiring substrate by connecting flip flops. The flip flops are connected to wiring and are arranged to test connections in the wiring. The entire IP On Super-Sub (IPOS) device or each chip IP may be arranged to facilitate a scan test, a built-in self-test (BIST), etc., on the internal circuit of the chip IP.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventors: Sadami Takeoka, Mitsuyasu Ohta, Osamu Ichikawa, Masayoshi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20030021464Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit of the present invention is provided with a clock control portion having a clock generation portion for generating a clock signal and an output command signal input portion for receiving a clock output command signal from the outside, and an internal circuit controlled by an output clock signal that is output from the clock control portion, and the clock control portion is configured so that it outputs the output clock signal to the internal circuit when a certain time period has passed from a time when the output command signal is received.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2002Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventors: Sadami Takeoka, Mitsuyasu Ohta, Osamu Ichikawa, Masayoshi Yoshimura, Takashi Ishimura
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Publication number: 20020129322Abstract: A design for testability is applied so as to enable significant reduction in test time of an actual integrated circuit. First, an integrated circuit is full-scan designed on a block-by-block basis and test input patterns are generated (S11). Then, one of the blocks to which the design for testability has not been allocated is selected (S12), and a full-scan design is allocated thereto (S14). Test points are inserted into a block that has more than a prescribed number of parallel test input patterns when that block is full-scan designed (YES in S15) (S16).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2001Publication date: September 12, 2002Inventors: Toshinori Hosokawa, Masayoshi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 5512847Abstract: In an input level converter for TTL--CMOS level conversion (or other conversion to CMOS) for an internal logic block operating with CMOS levels, an output transistor for executing the charge or discharge of the output capacitance thereof is formed of a bipolar transistor. Thus, the propagation delay times and their capacitance-dependencies of the input level converter can be lessened. Similarly, in an output level converter for CMOS--TTL level conversion (or other conversion from CMOS) for the internal logic block operating with the CMOS levels, an output transistor for executing the charge or discharge of the output load capacitance thereof is formed of a bipolar transistor. Thus, the propagation delay times and their capacitance-dependencies of the output level converter can also be lessened.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1994Date of Patent: April 30, 1996Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Suzuki, Ikuro Masuda, Masahiro Iwamura, Shinji Kadono, Akira Uragami, Masayoshi Yoshimura, Toshiaki Matsubara
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Patent number: 5495183Abstract: In an input level converter for TTL--CMOS level conversion (or other conversion to CMOS) for an internal logic block operating with CMOS levels, an output transistor for executing the charge or discharge of the output capacitance thereof is formed of a bipolar transistor. Thus, the propagation delay times and their capacitance-dependencies of the input level converter can be lessened. Similarly, in an output level converter for CMOS--TTL level conversion (or other conversion from CMOS) for the internal logic block operating with the CMOS levels, an output transistor for executing the charge or discharge of the output load capacitance thereof is formed of a bipolar transistor. Thus, the propagation delay times and their capacitance-dependencies of the output level converter can also be lessened.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1995Date of Patent: February 27, 1996Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Suzuki, Ikuro Masuda, Masahiro Iwamura, Shinji Kadono, Akira Urragami, Masayoshi Yoshimura, Toshiaki Matsubara
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Patent number: 5245224Abstract: In an input level converter for TTL-CMOS level conversion (or other conversion to CMOS) for an internal logic block operating with CMOS levels, an output transistor for executing the charge or discharge of the output capacitance thereof is formed of a bipolar transistor. Thus, the propagation delay times and their capacitance-dependencies of the input level converter can be lessened. Similarly, in an output level converter for CMOS-TTL level conversion (or other conversion from CMOS) for the internal logic block operating with the CMOS levels, an output transistor for executing the charge or discharge of the output load capacitance thereof is formed of a bipolar transistor. Thus, the propagation delay times and their capacitance-dependencies of the output level converter can also be lessened.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1992Date of Patent: September 14, 1993Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Suzuki, Ikuro Masuda, Masahiro Iwamura, Shinji Kadono, Akira Uragami, Masayoshi Yoshimura, Toshiaki Matsubara
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Patent number: 5103120Abstract: In an input level converter for TTL - CMOS level conversion (or other conversion to CMOS) for an internal logic block operating with CMOS levels, an output transistor for executing the charge or discharge of the output capacitance thereof is formed of a bipolar transistor. Thus, the propagation delay times and their capacitance-dependencies of the input level converter can be lessened. Similarly, in an output level converter for CMOS - TTL level conversion (or other conversion from CMOS) for the internal logic block operating with the CMOS levels, an output transistor for executing the charge or discharge of the output load capacitance thereof is formed of a bipolar transistor. Thus, the propagation delay times and their capacitance-dependencies of the output level converter can also be lessened.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 1991Date of Patent: April 7, 1992Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Suzuki, Ikuro Masuda, Masahiro Iwamura, Shinji Kadono, Akira Uragami, Masayoshi Yoshimura, Toshiaki Matsubara
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Patent number: 4983862Abstract: In an input level converter for TTL - CMOS level conversion (or other conversion to CMOS) for an internal logic block operating with CMOS levels, an output transistor for executing the charge or discharge of the output capacitance thereof is formed of a bipolar transistor. Thus, the propagation delay times and their capacitance-dependencies of the input level converter can be lessened. Similarly, in an output level converter for CMOS - TTL level conversion (or other conversion from CMOS) for the internal logic block operating with the CMOS levels, an output transistor for executing the charge or discharge of the output load capacitance thereof is formed of a bipolar transistor. Thus, the propagation delay times and their capacitance-dependencies of the output level converter can also be lessened.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1989Date of Patent: January 8, 1991Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Suzuki, Ikuro Masuda, Masahiro Iwamura, Shinji Kadono, Akira Uragami, Masayoshi Yoshimura, Toshiaki Matsubara
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Patent number: 4879480Abstract: In an input level converter for TTL - CMOS level conversion (or other conversion to CMOS) for an internal logic block operating with CMOS levels, an output transistor for executing the charge or discharge of the output capacitance thereof is formed of a bipolar transistor. Thus, the propagation delay times and their capacitance-dependencies of the input level converter can be lessened. Similarly, in an output level converter for CMOS - TTL level conversion (or other conversion from CMOS) for the internal logic block operating with the CMOS levels, an output transistor for executing the charge or discharge of the output load capacitance thereof is formed of a bipolar transistor. Thus, the propagation delay times and their capacitance-dependencies of the output level converter can also be lessened.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1988Date of Patent: November 7, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Suzuki, Ikuro Masuda, Masahiro Iwamura, Shinji Kadono, Akiro Uragami, Masayoshi Yoshimura, Toshiaki Matsubara
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Patent number: 4689503Abstract: In an input level converter for TTL-CMOS level conversion (or other conversion to CMOS) for an internal logic block operating with CMOS levels, an output transistor for executing the charge or discharge of the output capacitance thereof is formed of a bipolar transistor. Thus, the propagation delay times and their capacitance-dependencies of the input level converter can be lessened. Similarly, in an output level converter for CMOS-TTL level conversion (or other conversion from CMOS) for the internal logic block operating with the CMOS levels, an output transistor for executing the charge or discharge of the output load capacitance thereof is formed of a bipolar transistor. Thus, the propagation delay times and their capacitance-dependencies of the output level converter can also be lessened.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1984Date of Patent: August 25, 1987Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yukio Suzuki, Ikuro Masuda, Masahiro Iwamura, Shinji Kadono, Akira Uragami, Masayoshi Yoshimura, Toshiaki Matsubara