Patents by Inventor Michihiro Mishima

Michihiro Mishima 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: 7638871
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, formed on a semiconductor substrate, including a first memory array formed in a first region and including first word lines, first bit lines across the first word lines, and memory cells at intersections of the first word lines and the first bit lines, a second memory array which is formed in a second region and including second word lines, second bit lines across the second word lines, and memory cells at intersections of the second word lines and the second bit lines, and address pads located in a third region, in which the first region, the third region and the second region are arranged in that order in the first direction, the address input pads being arranged between a center axis of the first direction of the substrate and the first region, and no address input pads are arranged between the center axis and the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Elpida Memory, Inc.
    Inventors: Kouichirou Noda, Shigenobu Kato, Goro Kitsukawa, Michihiro Mishima
  • Publication number: 20080265284
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, formed on a semiconductor substrate, including a first memory array formed in a first region and including first word lines, first bit lines across the first word lines, and memory cells at intersections of the first word lines and the first bit lines, a second memory array which is formed in a second region and including second word lines, second bit lines across the second word lines, and memory cells at intersections of the second word lines and the second bit lines, and address pads located in a third region, in which the first region, the third region and the second region are arranged in that order in the first direction, the address input pads being arranged between a center axis of the first direction of the substrate and the first region, and no address input pads are arranged between the center axis and the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Kouichirou Noda, Shigenobu Kato, Goro Kitsukawa, Michihiro Mishima
  • Patent number: 7400034
    Abstract: There is provided a large capacity memory such as a DRAM and an SDRAM n which bonding pads PS and PD are not located at the center, but are displaced from the center between memory array regions UL and UR, disposed on the upper side of a four-bank structure of banks 0 through 3, and memory array regions DL and DR, disposed on the lower side thereof. Secondly, the disposition of the bonding pads PS and PD is staggered on the right and left such that the right half bonding pads PD are shifted up relative to the left half bonding pads by about 30 ?m. Only a sense amplifier, a column decoder and a main amplifier, which need to be near to the memory array regions DL and DR, are disposed between the bonding pads PS and PD, and the lower memory array regions DL and DR, and further indirect peripheral circuits are disposed on the upper side of the bonding pads PS and PD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Elpida Memory, Inc.
    Inventors: Kouichirou Noda, Shigenobu Kato, Goro Kitsukawa, Michihiro Mishima
  • Patent number: 7371687
    Abstract: An electronic circuit device has a high-density mount board (2), on which are disposed a microcomputer (3) and random access memory (7) which are connected to each other through an exclusive memory bus (12) for high-speed data transfer, a programmable device (8) which is a variable logic circuit represented by FPGA, and an electrically-rewritable nonvolatile memory (16) which can store the operation program of the microcomputer. The high-density mount board has external mounting pins on the bottom surface so that it can be mounted on a mother board in the same manner as a system on-chip multi-chip module. With an intended logic function being set on the programmable device, a hardware-based function to be realized by the electronic circuit device can be simulated. With an operation program being written to the nonvolatile memory, a software-based function to be realized can be simulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Fujita, Osamu Kubo, Kouki Noguchi, Masaharu Kubo, Michihiro Mishima, Yasuhiko Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7323771
    Abstract: An electronic circuit device has a high-density mount board (2), on which are disposed a microcomputer (3) and random access memory (7) which are connected to each other through an exclusive memory bus (12) for high-speed data transfer, a programmable device (8) which is a variable logic circuit represented by FPGA, and an electrically-rewritable nonvolatile memory (16) which can store the operation program of the microcomputer. The high-density mount board has external mounting pins on the bottom surface so that it can be mounted on a mother board in the same manner as a system on-chip multi-chip module. With an intended logic function being set on the programmable device, a hardware-based function to be realized by the electronic circuit device can be simulated. With an operation program being written to the nonvolatile memory, a software-based function to be realized can be simulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Fujita, Osamu Kubo, Kouki Noguchi, Masaharu Kubo, Michihiro Mishima, Yasuhiko Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7196395
    Abstract: The object is the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device including a circuit employing two or more field-effect transistor that are desired to have equal characteristics, capable of realizing high reliability and superior transistor characteristics. The transistors which are desired to have equal characteristics are placed in the semiconductor device so as to have the same STI trench width (the width of shallow trench isolation adjacent to an active in which the transistor is formed). By such composition, stress growing in the active due to the shallow trench isolation is equalized among the transistors and thereby the characteristics of the transistors can be equalized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kumagai, Hideo Miura, Hiroyuki Ohta, Michihiro Mishima, Katsuyuki Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20060244122
    Abstract: An electronic circuit device has a high-density mount board (2), on which are disposed a microcomputer (3) and random access memory (7) which are connected to each other through an exclusive memory bus (12) for high-speed data transfer, a programmable device (8) which is a variable logic circuit represented by FPGA, and an electrically-rewritable nonvolatile memory (16) which can store the operation program of the microcomputer. The high-density mount board has external mounting pins on the bottom surface so that it can be mounted on a mother board in the same manner as a system on-chip multi-chip module. With an intended logic function being set on the programmable device, a hardware-based function to be realized by the electronic circuit device can be simulated. With an operation program being written to the nonvolatile memory, a software-based function to be realized can be simulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Ryo Fujita, Osamu Kubo, Kouki Noguchi, Masaharu Kubo, Michihiro Mishima, Yasuhiko Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20060237835
    Abstract: An electronic circuit device has a high-density mount board (2), on which are disposed a microcomputer (3) and random access memory (7) which are connected to each other through an exclusive memory bus (12) for high-speed data transfer, a programmable device (8) which is a variable logic circuit represented by FPGA, and an electrically-rewritable nonvolatile memory (16) which can store the operation program of the microcomputer. The high-density mount board has external mounting pins on the bottom surface so that it can be mounted on a mother board in the same manner as a system on-chip multi-chip module. With an intended logic function being set on the programmable device, a hardware-based function to be realized by the electronic circuit device can be simulated. With an operation program being written to the nonvolatile memory, a software-based function to be realized can be simulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Ryo Fujita, Osamu Kubo, Kouki Noguchi, Masaharu Kubo, Michihiro Mishima, Yasuhiko Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7091598
    Abstract: An electronic circuit device has a high-density mount board, on which are disposed a microcomputer, a random access memory, a programmable device which is a variable logic circuit represented by FPGA, and an electrically-rewritable nonvolatile memory which can store the operation program of the microcomputer. The high-density mount board has external mounting pins on the bottom surface so as to be mounted on a mother board in the same manner as a system on-chip multi-chip module. With an intended logic function being set on the programmable device, a hardware-based function to be realized by the electronic circuit device is simulated. With an operation program being written to the nonvolatile memory, a software-based function to be realized is simulated. Consequently, the device facilitates the debugging at early stages of system development, configures a prototype system, and contributes to the time reduction throughout the system development, prototype fabrication and large-scale production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Fujita, Osamu Kubo, Kouki Noguchi, Masaharu Kubo, Michihiro Mishima, Yasuhiko Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20050263811
    Abstract: There is provided a large capacity memory such as a DRAM and an SDRAM n which bonding pads PS and PD are not located at the center, but are displaced from the center between memeory array regions UL and UR, disposed on the upper side of a four-bank structure of banks 0 through 3, and memory array regions DL and DR, disposed on the lower side therof. Secondly, the disposition of the bonding pads PS and PD is staggered on the right and left such that the right half bonding pads PD are shifted up relative to the left half bonding pads by about 30 ?m. Only a sense amplifier, a column decoder and a main amplifier, which need to be near to the memory array regions DL and DR, are disposed between the bonding pads PS and PD, and the lower memory array regions DL and DR, and further indirect peripheral circuits are disposed on the upper side of the bonding pads PS and PD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Inventors: Kouichirou Noda, Shigenobu Kato, Goro Kitsukawa, Michihiro Mishima
  • Patent number: 6891761
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided including a circuit employing two or more field-effect transistor that are desired to have equal characteristics, capable of realizing high reliability and superior transistor characteristics. The transistors which are desired to have equal characteristics are placed in the semiconductor device so as to have the same STI trench width (the width of shallow trench isolation adjacent to an active area in which the transistor is formed). By such composition, stress growing in the active area due to the shallow trench isolation is equalized among the transistors, and, thereby, the characteristics of the transistors can be equalized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kumagai, Hideo Miura, Hiroyuki Ohta, Michihiro Mishima, Katsuyuki Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20040183100
    Abstract: The object is the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device including a circuit employing two or more field-effect transistor that are desired to have equal characteristics, capable of realizing high reliability and superior transistor characteristics. The transistors which are desired to have equal characteristics are placed in the semiconductor device so as to have the same STI trench width (the width of shallow trench isolation adjacent to an active in which the transistor is formed). By such composition, stress growing in the active due to the shallow trench isolation is equalized among the transistors and thereby the characteristics of the transistors can be equalized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kumagai, Hideo Miura, Hiroyuki Ohta, Michihiro Mishima, Katsuyuki Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20040061147
    Abstract: An electronic circuit device has a high-density mount board (2), on which are disposed a microcomputer (3) and random access memory (7) which are connected to each other through an exclusive memory bus (12) for high-speed data transfer, a programmable device (8) which is a variable logic circuit represented by FPGA, and an electrically-rewritable nonvolatile memory (16) which can store the operation program of the microcomputer. The high-density mount board has external mounting pins on the bottom surface so that it can be mounted on a mother board in the same manner as a system on-chip multi-chip module. With an intended logic function being set on the programmable device, a hardware-based function to be realized by the electronic circuit device can be simulated. With an operation program being written to the nonvolatile memory, a software-based function to be realized can be simulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Ryo Fujita, Osamu Kubo, Kouki Noguchi, Masaharu Kubo, Michihiro Mishima, Yasuhiko Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20030132473
    Abstract: The object is the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device including a circuit employing two or more field-effect transistor that are desired to have equal characteristics, capable of realizing high reliability and superior transistor characteristics. The transistors which are desired to have equal characteristics are placed in the semiconductor device so as to have the same STI trench width (the width of shallow trench isolation adjacent to an active in which the transistor is formed). By such composition, stress growing in the active due to the shallow trench isolation is equalized among the transistors and thereby the characteristics of the transistors can be equalized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kumagai, Hideo Miura, Hiroyuki Ohta, Michihiro Mishima, Katsuyuki Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20030089926
    Abstract: There is provided a large capacity memory such as a DRAM and an SDRAM in which bonding pads PS and PD are not located at the center, but are displaced from the center between memory array regions UL and UR, disposed on the upper side of a four-bank structure of banks 0 through 3, and memory array regions DL and DR, disposed on the lower side thereof. Secondly, the disposition of the bonding pads PS and PD is staggered on the right and left such that the right half bonding pads PD are shifted up relative to the left half bonding pads by about 30 &mgr;m. Only a sense amplifier, a column decoder and a main amplifier, which need to be near to the memory array regions DL and DR, are disposed between the bonding pads PS and PD, and the lower memory array regions DL and DR, and further indirect peripheral circuits are disposed on the upper side of the bonding pads PS and PD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Kouichirou Noda, Shigenobu Kato, Goro Kitsukawa, Michihiro Mishima
  • Patent number: 6504770
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor memory which allows a redundant memory cell to be disposed at the center while maintaining the continuity of layout units of direct peripheral circuits and allows the total yield of the memory cell and the direct peripheral circuits to be improved. The inventive semiconductor memory is a 64 M-bits or 256 M-bits DRAM using a hierarchical word line structure or a multi-division bit line structure and comprises a main row decoder region, a main word driver region, a column decoder region, a peripheral circuit/bonding pad region, a memory cell array, a sense amplifier region, a sub-word driver region, intersection regions and the like formed on one semiconductor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi ULSI Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Goro Kitsukawa, Toshitsugu Ueda, Manabu Ishimatsu, Michihiro Mishima
  • Publication number: 20020096694
    Abstract: There is provided a large capacity memory such as a DRAM and an SDRAM in which bonding pads PS and PD are put not at the center but aside between memory array regions UL and UR disposed on the upper side of a four-bank structure of banks 0 through 3 and memory array regions DL and DR disposed on the lower side firstly. Secondly, the disposition of the bonding pads Ps and PD is staggered on the right and left and the right half bonding pads PD are shifted up by about 30 &mgr;m. Only a sense amplifier, a column decoder and a main amplifier which need to be approached to the memory array regions DL and DR are disposed between the bonding pads PS and PD and the lower memory array regions DL and DR and indirect peripheral circuits are disposed on the upper side of the bonding pads PS and PD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 1999
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: KOUICHIROU NODA, SHIGENOBU KATO, GORO KITSUKAWA, MICHIHIRO MISHIMA
  • Patent number: 6407952
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor memory which allows a redundant memory cell to be disposed at the center while maintaining the continuity of layout units of direct peripheral circuits and allows the total yield of the memory cell and the direct peripheral circuits to be improved. The inventive semiconductor memory is a 64 M-bits or 256 M-bits DRAM using a hierarchical word line structure or a multi-division bit line structure and comprises a main row decoder region, a main word driver region, a column decoder region, a peripheral circuit/bonding pad region, a memory cell array, a sense amplifier region, a sub-word driver region, intersection regions and the like formed on one semiconductor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi USLI Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Goro Kitsukawa, Toshitsugu Ueda, Manabu Ishimatsu, Michihiro Mishima
  • Publication number: 20020071324
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor memory which allows a redundant memory cell to be disposed at the center while maintaining the continuity of layout units of direct peripheral circuits and allows the total yield of the memory cell and the direct peripheral circuits to be improved. The inventive semiconductor memory is a 64 M-bits or 256 M-bits DRAM using a hierarchical word line structure or a multi-division bit line structure and comprises a main row decoder region, a main word driver region, a column decoder region, a peripheral circuit/bonding pad region, a memory cell array, a sense amplifier region, a sub-word driver region, intersection regions and the like formed on one semiconductor chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2002
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Goro Kitsukawa, Toshitsugu Ueda, Manabu Ishimatsu, Michihiro Mishima
  • Publication number: 20020008255
    Abstract: There is provided a large capacity memory such as a DRAM and an SDRAM in which bonding pads PS and PD are not located at the center, but are displaced from the center between memory array regions UL and UR, disposed on the upper side of a four-bank structure of banks 0 through 3, and memory array regions DL and DR, disposed on the lower side thereof. Secondly, the disposition of the bonding pads PS and PD is staggered on the right and left such that the right half bonding pads PD are shifted up relative to the left half bonding pads by about 30 &mgr;m. Only a sense amplifier, a column decoder and a main amplifier, which need to be near to the memory array regions DL and DR, are disposed between the bonding pads PS and PD and the lower memory array regions DL and DR, and further indirect peripheral circuits are disposed on the upper side of the bonding pads PS and PD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Kouichirou Noda, Shigenobu Kato, Goro Kitsukawa, Michihiro Mishima