Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Storage element, storage device, and signal processing circuit
- Patent Title (中): 存储元件,存储设备和信号处理电路
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Application No.: US14068217Application Date: 2013-10-31
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Publication No.: US09024669B2Publication Date: 2015-05-05
- Inventor: Takuro Ohmaru , Masami Endo
- Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- 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 ; H01L27/108 ; G11C11/24 ; H01L29/26

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
- US20140048802A1 Storage Element, Storage Device, And Signal Processing Circuit Public/Granted day:2014-02-20
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