Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Storage element, storage device, and signal processing circuit
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Application No.: US13341412Application Date: 2011-12-30
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Publication No.: US08575985B2Publication Date: 2013-11-05
- Inventor: Takuro Ohmaru , Masami Endo
- Applicant: Takuro Ohmaru , Masami Endo
- Applicant Address: JP Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa-ken
- Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa-ken
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: JP2011-000435 20110105; JP2011-113414 20110520
- Main IPC: H03K3/356
- IPC: H03K3/356

Abstract:
A signal processing circuit whose power consumption can be suppressed is provided. In a period during which a power supply voltage is not supplied to a storage element, data stored in a first storage circuit corresponding to a nonvolatile memory can be held by a first capacitor provided in a second storage circuit. With the use of a transistor in which a channel is formed in an oxide semiconductor layer, a signal held in the first capacitor is held for a long time. The storage element can accordingly hold the stored content (data) also in a period during which the supply of the power supply voltage is stopped. A signal held by the first capacitor can be converted into the one corresponding to the state (the on state or off state) of the second transistor and read from the second storage circuit. Consequently, an original signal can be accurately read.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120170355A1 STORAGE ELEMENT, STORAGE DEVICE, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2012-07-05
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