Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor device, electronic component, and electronic device
- Patent Title (中): 半导体装置,电子部件和电子装置
-
Application No.: US15007350Application Date: 2016-01-27
-
Publication No.: US09461646B2Publication Date: 2016-10-04
- Inventor: Munehiro Kozuma , Takayuki Ikeda , Yoshiyuki Kurokawa , Takeshi Aoki , Yuki Okamoto
- 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: JP2015-014997 20150129; JP2015-161815 20150819
- Main IPC: H03K19/177
- IPC: H03K19/177 ; H03K19/00 ; H03K19/0948

Abstract:
A semiconductor device suitable for low-voltage driving. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a power supply line, a circuit, and a memory circuit. The first transistor controls electrical continuity between the circuit and the power supply line. The memory circuit stores data for setting a gate potential of the first transistor. The second transistor controls electrical continuity between an output node of the memory circuit and a gate of the first transistor. The second transistor is a transistor with an ultralow off-state current, for example, an oxide semiconductor transistor. In a period for operating the circuit, a first potential is input to the power supply line and the second transistor is turned off. In a period for updating the gate potential of the first transistor, a second potential is input to the power supply line. The second potential is higher than the first potential.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160226490A1 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-08-04
Information query
IPC分类: