Patent ID: 9628090
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G11C,H01L,H03K,H03L

Claim:
1. A semiconductor device comprising: a holding circuit that holds first data to be transmitted; a data generation circuit that generates second data to be transmitted by the same transmission path as the first data; a control circuit that controls transmission of the first data and the second data so that a frequency of a data signal becomes equal to or more than a certain frequency; an output circuit that selects and outputs the first data held by the holding circuit or the second data generated by the data generation circuit as the data signal in correspondence with control by the control circuit; a valid signal generation circuit that outputs a valid signal that indicates that the data is effective when the output circuit is outputting the first data; and a reception circuit that is formed in a second die different from a first die that includes the holding circuit, the data generation circuit, the control circuit, the output circuit, and the valid signal generation circuit, receives the data signal and the valid signal transmitted from the first die via the transmission path that includes a through silicon via, and acquires the first data from the data signal based on the valid signal.