Semiconductor integrated circuit device and methods for production thereof

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PATENT NO 5360988
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07903202

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Disclosed are a semiconductor integrated circuit device and methods for production thereof. An embodiment of the invention is a semiconductor chip that comprises fuses constituting part of redundancy circuits formed therein, the fuses being made of the same ingredients as those of a CCB bump substrate metal. The fuses are patterned simultaneously during the patterning of the CCB bump substrate metal. This involves forming the fuses using at least part of the ingredients of an electrode conductor pattern in the chip. The cutting regions of the fuses are made of only one of the metal layers constituting the substrate. The principal plane of the semiconductor chip has a fuse protective film formed over at least the cutting regions of the fuses for protection of the latter. In operation, a switch MOSFET under switching control of a redundancy signal is used to select one of two transmission paths, one carrying an address signal or a decode signal, the other carrying a reference voltage. This allows a faulty circuit to be replaced with the corresponding redundancy circuit.

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HITACHI LTDJAPAN

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Akimoto, Kazuhiro Akishima, JP 9 176
Hiramoto, Toshiro Ohme, JP 16 220
Hirokawa, Jun Ohme, JP 3 80
Ishida, Hisashi Higashiyamato, JP 49 865
Odaka, Masanori Kodaira, JP 34 419
Ohayashi, Masayuki Hamura, JP 12 198
Tamba, Nobuo Ohme, JP 17 491
Tanaka, Tasuku Hamura, JP 4 106
Uda, Takayuki Ohme, JP 13 243

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