PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15924857
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["365", "189020"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device may include a plurality of memory banks and an output buffer that couples to the plurality of memory banks. The output buffer may produce a data voltage signal representative of data to be read from at least one of the plurality of memory banks. The semiconductor device may also include a driver circuit having a pulse generator and a pull-down switch that couples the output buffer to ground, such that the pull-down switch provides the data voltage signal to the output buffer. The semiconductor device may also include a test mode circuit that determines whether the data voltage signal is acceptable and sends an enable signal to the pulse generator in response to the data voltage signal not being acceptable. The enable signal causes the pulse generator to effectively operate with variations in processing, temperature, and voltage properties associated with testing.

Claim (Index 15):
A method, comprising:\n transmitting, via a circuit, an initial clock frequency to a clock component configured to output a clock signal for a memory device; transmitting, via the circuit, test data to a driver circuit configured to output a data voltage signal representative of the test data on an output buffer; determining, via the circuit, whether the data voltage signal is acceptable based on a transition between voltage values while the memory device operates at the initial clock frequency; and transmitting, via the circuit, an enable signal configured to cause a pulse generator to operate in response to the data voltage signal not being acceptable, wherein the pulse generator is configured to generate a pulse signal configured to cause a first pull-down switch to close synchronously with the first a second pull-down switch based on an indication that the data voltage signal is transitioning between the voltage value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33846
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13659543', '14460764', '14723614', '15426603', '12004786']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7835216767912877
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4616315302013235
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7513326621322913
- Mean Citation Score: 175.95123999999996
- Max Citation Score: 177.60532
- Similarity Product: 139.248686005342

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test