Patents by Inventor Tomoru Sato

Tomoru Sato 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: 7276939
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes an input circuit for taking in signals and an output circuit for outputting signals. The input circuit is so set that the input impedance during input signal transition is lower than the input impedance on other occasions than input signal transition. The output circuit is so set that the driving force during the second half of signal transition is lower than the driving force during the first half of transition. Such setting that the input impedance during input signal transition is lower than the input impedance on other occasions than input signal transition reduces reflected waves during input signal transition. Such setting that the driving force during the second half of signal transition is lower than the driving force during the first half of transition suppresses production of reflected waves during the second half of signal transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Takayuki Noto, Tomoru Sato, Hiroyuki Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20070120237
    Abstract: To provide a test technology capable of reducing a package size by reducing a number of terminals (pins) in a semiconductor integrated circuit of SIP or the like constituted by mounting a plurality of semiconductor chips to a single package, in SIP 102 constituted by mounting a plurality of semiconductor chips to a signal package of ASIC 100, SDRAM 101 and the like, a circuit of testing SDRAM 101 (SDRAMBIST 109) is provided at inside of ASIC 100, and SDRAM 101 is tested from outside of SDRAM 101, that is, from ASIC 100. By providing the test circuit of SDRAM 101 at inside of ASIC 100, it is not necessary to extrude a terminal for testing SDRAM 101 to outside of SIP 102.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Noriaki Sakamoto, Takehisa Yokohama, Tomoru Sato, Takafumi Kikuchi, Fujio Ito
  • Patent number: 7176487
    Abstract: To provide a test technology capable of reducing a package size by reducing a number of terminals (pins) in a semiconductor integrated circuit of SIP or the like constituted by mounting a plurality of semiconductor chips to a single package, in SIP 102 constituted by mounting a plurality of semiconductor chips to a signal package of ASIC 100, SDRAM 101 and the like, a circuit of testing SDRAM 101 (SDRAMBIST 109) is provided at inside of ASIC 100, and SDRAM 101 is tested from outside of SDRAM 101, that is, from ASIC 100. By providing the test circuit of SDRAM 101 at inside of ASIC 100, it is not necessary to extrude a terminal for testing SDRAM 101 to outside of SIP 102.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Noriaki Sakamoto, Takehisa Yokohama, Tomoru Sato, Takafumi Kikuchi, Fujio Ito
  • Publication number: 20060061395
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes an input circuit for taking in signals and an output circuit for outputting signals. The input circuit is so set that the input impedance during input signal transition is lower than the input impedance on other occasions than input signal transition. The output circuit is so set that the driving force during the second half of signal transition is lower than the driving force during the first half of transition. Such setting that the input impedance during input signal transition is lower than the input impedance on other occasions than input signal transition reduces reflected waves during input signal transition. Such setting that the driving force during the second half of signal transition is lower than the driving force during the first half of transition suppresses production of reflected waves during the second half of signal transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2003
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Takayuki Noto, Tomoru Sato, Hiroyuki Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20050230796
    Abstract: To provide a test technology capable of reducing a package size by reducing a number of terminals (pins) in a semiconductor integrated circuit of SIP or the like constituted by mounting a plurality of semiconductor chips to a single package, in SIP 102 constituted by mounting a plurality of semiconductor chips to a signal package of ASIC 100, SDRAM 101 and the like, a circuit of testing SDRAM 101 (SDRAMBIST 109) is provided at inside of ASIC 100, and SDRAM 101 is tested from outside of SDRAM 101, that is, from ASIC 100. By providing the test circuit of SDRAM 101 at inside of ASIC 100, it is not necessary to extrude a terminal for testing SDRAM 101 to outside of SIP 102.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Noriaki Sakamoto, Takehisa Yokohama, Tomoru Sato, Takafumi Kikuchi, Fujio Ito
  • Patent number: 4958276
    Abstract: In a single chip processor which can be provided with an extended program memory, a high-speed access can be executed without being restricted by the access time for the external program memory when an internal program memory is employed, by varying the effective instruction cycle, and thus a high-speed processing performance for a single chip processor of a stored program type can be attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi VLSI Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kiuchi, Kenji Kaneko, Jun Ishida, Tetsuya Nakagawa, Yoshimune Hagiwara, Takashi Akazawa, Tomoru Sato
  • Patent number: 4910466
    Abstract: A plurality of external input information are added to a selecting circuit. The output of the selecting circuit is fed back as one of the external input information to the selecting circuit. The input signal groups are decoded, and are produced as control signals to specify the external input information in synchronism with clock signals. When the input select signal groups have the non-selection mode, the output that is fed back is necessarily selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignees: Hitachi Microcomputer Engineering Ltd., Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi VLSI Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kiuchi, Jun Ishida, Kenji Kaneko, Tetsuya Nakagawa, Tomoru Sato, Shigeki Masumura, Noriyasu Suzuki, Yoshimune Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 4745581
    Abstract: An LSI system is disclosed in which a plurality of status registers for indicating the internal status of the system are connected to each other so as to form a hierarchical structure and the contents of each of the remaining status registers other than one status register can be transferred to an output register through a bus, to make it possible to provide additional status registers in the system without increasing the number of address signals used and the number of pins connected to external address signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoru Sato, Kenji Kaneko, Hirotada Ueda, Yoshimune Hagiwara, Hitoshi Matsushima, Tetsuya Nakagawa, Atsushi Kiuchi