Patent ID: 7564296
Filing Date: 2009-07-21
Classification: H03K

Abstract:
1. A semiconductor integrated circuit apparatus, comprising: a first first main conductivity MIS transistor having a source connected to a first power supply; a second first main conductivity MIS transistor having a source connected to a drain of the first first main conductivity MIS transistor, a drain connected to a first current source, and a gate connected to a gate of the first first main conductivity MIS transistor and the first current source; and a current mirror circuit that one of amplifies and attenuates a drain current of a third first main conductivity MIS transistor having a source connected to the first power supply and which uses a drain potential of the first first main conductivity MIS transistor as a gate potential, to a current value of an arbitrary ratio, wherein the current mirror circuit satisfies a following equation: where I L.LSI is a leakage current of an MIS transistor T n(LSI) of a target circuit, I L.LCM is a leakage current of a leakage current detection MIS transistor T n1 , W LSI is a channel width of the MIS transistor T n(LSI) of the target circuit, W LCM is a channel width of the leakage current detection MIS transistor T n1 , W 1 is a channel width of the first first main conductivity MIS transistor, and W 2 is a channel width of the second first main conductivity MIS transistor, and wherein an absolute value of a difference between gate potentials of the first first main conductivity MIS transistor and the second first main conductivity MIS transistor and the first power supply potential becomes one of equal to and smaller than a threshold voltage of the first and second first main conductivity MIS transistors, such that the first and second first main conductivity MIS transistors operate in a sub-threshold region.