KR20120033440A - On die termination circuit - Google Patents
On die termination circuitInfo
- Publication number
- KR20120033440A KR20120033440A KR1020100094950A KR20100094950A KR20120033440A KR 20120033440 A KR20120033440 A KR 20120033440A KR 1020100094950 A KR1020100094950 A KR 1020100094950A KR 20100094950 A KR20100094950 A KR 20100094950A KR 20120033440 A KR20120033440 A KR 20120033440A
- Authority
- KR
- South Korea
- Prior art keywords
- pull
- driver
- resistor
- output
- termination circuit
- Prior art date
Links
Images
Classifications
-
- G—PHYSICS
- G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
- G11C—STATIC STORES
- G11C5/00—Details of stores covered by group G11C11/00
- G11C5/14—Power supply arrangements, e.g. power down, chip selection or deselection, layout of wirings or power grids, or multiple supply levels
- G11C5/147—Voltage reference generators, voltage or current regulators; Internally lowered supply levels; Compensation for voltage drops
-
- G—PHYSICS
- G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
- G11C—STATIC STORES
- G11C7/00—Arrangements for writing information into, or reading information out from, a digital store
- G11C7/10—Input/output [I/O] data interface arrangements, e.g. I/O data control circuits, I/O data buffers
- G11C7/1051—Data output circuits, e.g. read-out amplifiers, data output buffers, data output registers, data output level conversion circuits
-
- G—PHYSICS
- G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
- G11C—STATIC STORES
- G11C2207/00—Indexing scheme relating to arrangements for writing information into, or reading information out from, a digital store
- G11C2207/10—Aspects relating to interfaces of memory device to external buses
- G11C2207/105—Aspects related to pads, pins or terminals
-
- H—ELECTRICITY
- H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
- H03K—PULSE TECHNIQUE
- H03K19/00—Logic circuits, i.e. having at least two inputs acting on one output; Inverting circuits
- H03K19/01—Modifications for accelerating switching
- H03K19/017—Modifications for accelerating switching in field-effect transistor circuits
- H03K19/01707—Modifications for accelerating switching in field-effect transistor circuits in asynchronous circuits
- H03K19/01721—Modifications for accelerating switching in field-effect transistor circuits in asynchronous circuits by means of a pull-up or down element
Landscapes
- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Power Engineering (AREA)
- Semiconductor Integrated Circuits (AREA)
- Logic Circuits (AREA)
Abstract
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an on die termination circuit of a semiconductor device, and more particularly to an on die termination circuit capable of compensating for resistance mismatches caused by parasitic resistance components.
The present invention includes one or more pull-up output blocks including a pull-up resistor and a pull-up switch for adjusting the pull-up resistor, and the pull-up driver for controlling the one or more pull-up output blocks according to a pull-up control signal and outputting output data to an input / output pad. And a pull-down output block including a pull-down switch configured to control a pull-down resistor and a pull-down resistor, and a pull-down driver for controlling the one or more pull-down output blocks according to a pull-down control signal and outputting output data to an input / output pad. And a pull-up current control driver disposed between the power supply voltage and the pull-down current control driver disposed between the pull-down driver and the ground voltage.
Accordingly, the present invention includes a pull-up current control driver and a pull-down current control driver between the pull-up driver and the power supply voltage, thereby compensating for the resistance mismatch by parasitic resistance components.
Description
The present invention relates to an on die termination circuit of a semiconductor device, and more particularly, to an on die termination circuit capable of compensating for resistance mismatches caused by parasitic resistance components.
Various semiconductor devices, typically implemented as integrated circuit chips such as central processing units, memory and gate arrays, are incorporated into various electrical products such as personal computers, servers, workstations, and the like. Used. As the operation speed of such electrical products is increased, the data transfer speed of the semiconductor devices is also very high.
In particular, several new concepts have been added to more quickly control the data transfer rate of Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), among which the termination resistance facilitates signal transmission between devices. To do that.
Here, if the resistance is not properly matched, the transmitted signal is reflected, which is likely to cause an error in signal transmission. However, when a fixed resistor is applied to the outside, it may not be properly matched due to aging of the integrated circuit, temperature change, or difference in manufacturing process. Accordingly, recently, a technique of adjusting the resistance of the termination part by adjusting the number of transistors turned on among a plurality of transistors connected in parallel in order to have the same resistance value as compared with the external reference resistor has been proposed.
1 is a circuit diagram showing a configuration of a general on die termination circuit.
Referring to FIG. 1, a general on die termination circuit adjusts resistance values of resistors connected between input / output pads (DQs) of a semiconductor device to be the same. The pull-
The pull-
The pull-
The pull-down control unit 130 controls a pull-down control signal DN240 for controlling the NMOS transistors MN0, MN1, and MN2 that adjust the pull-down resistors DR1, DR2, and DR3 according to the NCODE signal, data, and a control signal named OCDTEN. <0: N>, DN120 <0: N>, and DN60 <0: N> are output to the pull-
The pull-
In the general on-die termination circuit configured as described above, as shown in FIG. 1, the pull-up resistor values PU_60, PU_120, and PU_240 and the pull-down resistor values PD_60, PD_120, and PD_240 are compared by resistance values of the pull-up / pull-down driving unit. It can be seen that this is equally adjusted. However, even if the pull-up resistor values PU_60, PU_120, PU_240 and the pull-down resistor values PD_60, PD_120, PD_240 are adjusted equally, resistance mismatch may occur, and such resistance value mismatch may be an effective resistance value (effective Rtt). Is determined in a test mode after ZQ calibration, and resistance value mismatch verification can be performed by substituting the determined effective resistance value into a predetermined resistance value mismatch formula.
FIG. 2 is a graph illustrating slope occurrence between an effective resistance value and a resistance value mismatch of FIG. 1.
Referring to the graph illustrated in FIG. 2, the X axis represents an effective resistance value (effective Rtt), and the Y axis represents a resistance value mismatch. Referring to FIG. 2, the smaller the larger the effective resistance value (max), the larger the smaller the effective resistance value (min), the larger the slope occurs.
The reason for such a slope is that, on the surface, the resistance is 0 between the power supply voltage VDDQ and the PMOS transistors MP0, MP1, and MP2 and between the ground voltage VSSQ and the NMOS transistors MN0, MN1, and MN2. However, it is due to the parasitic resistance component between the power supply voltage (VDDQ) and the PMOS transistor. Here, the graph a shows the parasitic resistance generated between the ground voltage VSSQ and the NMOS transistors MN0, MN1, and MN2 rather than the parasitic resistance generated between the power supply voltage VDDQ and the PMOS transistors MP0, MP1, and MP2. This large case is shown, and the b graph shows that the parasitic resistance generated between the power supply voltage VDDQ and the PMOS transistors MP0, MP1, and MP2 is between the ground voltage VSSQ and the NMOS transistors MN0, MN1, and MN2. This is the case where it is larger than the parasitic resistance occurring in.
Therefore, in general, the on-die termination circuit has a surface area when the resistance value of the on-die termination circuit is newly set even after the ZQ calibration is adjusted such that the resistance values of the connected resistors are placed between the input / output pads (DQ) of the semiconductor device. There is a problem that a mismatch of the resistance value occurs due to the parasitic resistance components that are not exposed.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an on-die termination circuit capable of compensating for mismatched resistance values caused by parasitic resistance components by adjusting a current supplied from a power supply voltage or a ground voltage.
The on-die termination circuit according to the present invention includes one or more pull-up output blocks comprising a pull-up resistor and a pull-up switch for adjusting the pull-up resistor, and controlling the one or more pull-up output blocks according to a pull-up control signal to output output data to an input / output pad. A pull-down output block including a pull-up driver for outputting a pull-down resistor and a pull-down switch for adjusting a pull-down resistor, and controlling the one or more pull-down output blocks according to a pull-down control signal to output output data to an input / output pad. And a pull-up current control driver disposed between the pull-up driver and the power supply voltage, and a pull-down current control driver disposed between the pull-down driver and the ground voltage.
The on-die termination circuit according to the present invention includes a pull-up current control driver between a pull-up driver and a power supply voltage, and a pull-down current control driver between a pull-down driver and a ground voltage to compensate for resistance mismatches caused by parasitic resistance components. It becomes possible.
1 is a circuit diagram showing a typical on die termination circuit,
FIG. 2 is a graph showing slope occurrence between an effective resistance value and a resistance value mismatch of FIG. 1;
3 is a circuit diagram illustrating an on die termination circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention;
4 is a circuit diagram illustrating a termination part of an on die termination circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention;
5 and 6 are exemplary diagrams illustrating an output block of an on die termination circuit according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, one embodiment of the present invention may be modified in various forms, and the scope of the present invention should not be construed as being limited due to the embodiments described below. One embodiment of the present invention is provided to more easily explain the present invention to those skilled in the art.
3 is a circuit diagram illustrating an on die termination circuit according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 3, the on die termination circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention may largely include a
The pull-
The pull-
The pull-
The pull-up
The pull-
The pull-down
4 is a circuit diagram illustrating a termination part of an on die termination circuit according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 4, as described above with reference to FIG. 3, the
Here, the pull-up
In addition, the pull-down
5 and 6 are exemplary diagrams illustrating an output block of an on die termination circuit according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
First, referring to FIG. 5, an output block of any one of a plurality of output blocks 411, 412, 413, 431, 432, and 433 constituting an on die termination circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention is illustrated. The output block of the termination circuit includes pull-up resistors PR11, PR12, PR13, PR14, which have different resistance values in each of a plurality of branches (N Ohm, 2N Ohm, 4N Ohm, 8N Ohm, 16N Ohm, 32N Ohm). PR15, PR16) or pulldown resistors DR11, DR12, DR13, DR14, DR15, DR16 and the respective pullup resistors PR11, PR12, PR13, PR14, PR15, PR16 or pulldown resistors DR11, DR12, DR13, DR14, PMOS transistors (MP01, MP02, MP03, MP04, MP05, MP06) or NMOS transistors (MN01, MN02, MN03, MN04, MN05, MN06) for adjusting the DR15, DR16 may be configured. .
These branches (N Ohm, 2N Ohm, 4N Ohm, 8N Ohm, 16N Ohm, 32N Ohm) are arranged in order from the smallest resistance value to the largest. In order to compensate for the mismatch of resistance values due to parasitic resistance in the output block of the on-die termination circuit configured as described above, the resistance value of the plurality of branches (N Ohm, 2N Ohm, 4N Ohm, 8N Ohm, 16N Ohm, 32N Ohm) The pull-up
If the branch (N Ohm, 2N Ohm, 4N Ohm, 8N Ohm, 16N Ohm, 32N Ohm) has the largest resistance value and the smallest current driving capability (32N Ohm), the pull-up
The on-die termination circuit according to the embodiment of the present invention pulls down between the pull-up
310: pull-up control unit 320: pull-down driving unit
410: pull-up
420: pull-up current control driver 430: pull-down driver
431, 432, 433: pull-down output block 440: pull-down current control driver
Claims (11)
A pull-down driver including one or more pull-down output blocks including a pull-down switch for adjusting a pull-down resistor and a pull-down resistor, and controlling the one or more pull-down output blocks according to a pull-down control signal to output output data to an input / output pad;
A pull-up current control driver disposed between the pull-up driver and a power supply voltage; And
A pull-down current control driver disposed between the pull-down driver and a ground voltage;
On die termination circuit comprising a.
A resistor having one end connected to the power supply voltage and the other end connected to the pull-up driving part; And
At least one PMOS transistor connected at one end to the power supply voltage and at the other end to the pull-up driving unit to adjust the resistance;
On die termination circuit comprising a.
And a parasitic resistance between the power supply voltage and the pull-up driver.
An on-die termination circuit disposed between the pull-up resistor source having the largest pull-up resistance value and the smallest current driving capability among the plurality of pull-up resistors constituting the pull-up output block and the power supply voltage; .
When the pull-up resistor source having the largest pull-up resistance value and the smallest current driving capability is deactivated, the pull-up resistor source having the same resistance value and current driving capability as the deactivated one pull-up resistor source is further included. And disposing at least one PMOS transistor between an included pull-up resistor source and the power supply voltage.
An on-die termination circuit, characterized in that the NMOS transistor.
A resistor having one end connected to the ground voltage and the other end connected to the pull-down driving unit; And
At least one NMOS transistor connected at one end to the ground voltage and at the other end to the pull-down driving unit to adjust the resistance;
On die termination circuit comprising a.
And a parasitic resistance between the ground voltage and the pull-down driving unit.
An on-die termination circuit disposed between any one of the pull-down resistor sources having the largest pull-down resistance value and the smallest current driving capability among the plurality of pull-down resistors constituting the pull-down output block and the ground voltage; .
When the pull-down resistor source having the largest pull-down resistance value and the smallest current driving capability is deactivated, the pull-down resistor source having the same resistance value and current driving capability as the deactivated pull-down resistor source is further included. And disposing one or more NMOS transistors between the further included pull-down resistor source and the ground voltage.
An on-die termination circuit, characterized in that the NMOS transistor.
Priority Applications (1)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
---|---|---|---|
KR1020100094950A KR20120033440A (en) | 2010-09-30 | 2010-09-30 | On die termination circuit |
Applications Claiming Priority (1)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
---|---|---|---|
KR1020100094950A KR20120033440A (en) | 2010-09-30 | 2010-09-30 | On die termination circuit |
Publications (1)
Publication Number | Publication Date |
---|---|
KR20120033440A true KR20120033440A (en) | 2012-04-09 |
Family
ID=46136197
Family Applications (1)
Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
---|---|---|---|
KR1020100094950A KR20120033440A (en) | 2010-09-30 | 2010-09-30 | On die termination circuit |
Country Status (1)
Country | Link |
---|---|
KR (1) | KR20120033440A (en) |
Cited By (6)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
KR20180023344A (en) * | 2016-08-25 | 2018-03-07 | 에스케이하이닉스 주식회사 | Data transmitting device, semiconductor apparatus and system including the same |
CN107786197A (en) * | 2016-08-25 | 2018-03-09 | 爱思开海力士有限公司 | Data transmission devices and the semiconductor devices and system for including it |
KR20190029011A (en) * | 2017-09-11 | 2019-03-20 | 에스케이하이닉스 주식회사 | Memory system having data output driver |
KR20190105863A (en) * | 2018-03-06 | 2019-09-18 | 에스케이하이닉스 주식회사 | Data output buffer |
KR20190135863A (en) * | 2018-05-29 | 2019-12-09 | 에스케이하이닉스 주식회사 | Data output buffer and memory device having the same |
KR20200008895A (en) * | 2018-07-17 | 2020-01-29 | 에스케이하이닉스 주식회사 | Data output buffer |
-
2010
- 2010-09-30 KR KR1020100094950A patent/KR20120033440A/en not_active Application Discontinuation
Cited By (8)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
KR20180023344A (en) * | 2016-08-25 | 2018-03-07 | 에스케이하이닉스 주식회사 | Data transmitting device, semiconductor apparatus and system including the same |
CN107786197A (en) * | 2016-08-25 | 2018-03-09 | 爱思开海力士有限公司 | Data transmission devices and the semiconductor devices and system for including it |
US10003335B2 (en) * | 2016-08-25 | 2018-06-19 | SK Hynix Inc. | Data transmission device, and semiconductor device and system including the same |
CN107786197B (en) * | 2016-08-25 | 2021-03-16 | 爱思开海力士有限公司 | Data transfer device, and semiconductor device and system including the same |
KR20190029011A (en) * | 2017-09-11 | 2019-03-20 | 에스케이하이닉스 주식회사 | Memory system having data output driver |
KR20190105863A (en) * | 2018-03-06 | 2019-09-18 | 에스케이하이닉스 주식회사 | Data output buffer |
KR20190135863A (en) * | 2018-05-29 | 2019-12-09 | 에스케이하이닉스 주식회사 | Data output buffer and memory device having the same |
KR20200008895A (en) * | 2018-07-17 | 2020-01-29 | 에스케이하이닉스 주식회사 | Data output buffer |
Similar Documents
Publication | Publication Date | Title |
---|---|---|
KR100879783B1 (en) | On Die Termination Device and Semiconcuctor Memory Device including thereof | |
KR100937951B1 (en) | Calibration circuit, on die termination device, and semiconductor memory device | |
KR100780646B1 (en) | On die termination device and semiconductor device which the on die termination device | |
KR100744004B1 (en) | Semiconductor memory device with on die termination circuit and therefor operation method | |
US7683657B2 (en) | Calibration circuit of on-die termination device | |
KR100533383B1 (en) | Output Driver Circuit | |
KR100886644B1 (en) | Calibration circuit for on die termination device | |
KR101145333B1 (en) | Impedance adjusting device | |
KR20120033440A (en) | On die termination circuit | |
US20080303558A1 (en) | Data output driver circuit | |
KR101006090B1 (en) | Semiconductor memory device | |
KR100820783B1 (en) | On die termination device with reduced mismatch | |
KR20220084592A (en) | Calibration circuit and semiconductor device including the same | |
KR100870427B1 (en) | On Die Termination Device | |
KR100937996B1 (en) | On-Die Termination Device | |
US10063232B1 (en) | Digitally controlled impedance calibration for a driver using an on-die reference resistor | |
CN110390966B (en) | Termination circuit, semiconductor device and operating method thereof | |
KR101175245B1 (en) | Circuit for impedance adjusting and integrarted circuit chip including the same | |
KR20110131368A (en) | Semiconductor memory device | |
KR100968419B1 (en) | Parallel Resistor Circuit and On Die Termination Device, On Die Termination Comprising The Same | |
KR20090022043A (en) | Calibration circuit for on die termination device | |
KR100976414B1 (en) | Calibration circuit, on die termination device, and semiconductor memory device | |
KR100838366B1 (en) | Calibration circuit of on die termination device that can compensate offset | |
KR102310508B1 (en) | Circuit for impedance adjusting and integrated circuit including the same | |
KR100942948B1 (en) | Termination resistance circuit, on die termination device, and semiconductor memory device |
Legal Events
Date | Code | Title | Description |
---|---|---|---|
WITN | Withdrawal due to no request for examination |