摘要 |
An object of the invention, in a semiconductor circuit or, more particularly, in an LSI on which a DRAM and a logic circuit are merged, is to decrease the frequency of times of refreshing operations to thereby achieve both reduction in power consumption and prevention of deterioration in the performance of the logic circuit caused by an increase in the memory access time due to contention between refresh and DRAM access of the logic circuit. To achieve the object, the refreshing is done only for rows storing the data used by the logic portion. Further, arbitrary data for which periods from being written in to being read out are overlapping or close to each other are allocated to the same row of the DRAM so as to be stored thereon, and the row is refreshed only during the period of time that the data stored thereon is live. <IMAGE> |