Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor device and memory circuit having an OS transistor and a capacitor
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Application No.: US15823662Application Date: 2017-11-28
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Publication No.: US10388380B2Publication Date: 2019-08-20
- Inventor: Hikaru Tamura
- 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: JP2014-105748 20140522
- Main IPC: G11C16/10
- IPC: G11C16/10 ; G11C7/16 ; G11C7/10 ; G11C11/40

Abstract:
Provided is a semiconductor device capable of reducing its area, operating at a high speed, or reducing its power consumption. A circuit 50 is used as a memory circuit with a function of performing an arithmetic operation. One of a circuit 80 and a circuit 90 has a region overlapping with at least part of the other of the circuit 80 and the circuit 90. Accordingly, the circuit 50 can perform the arithmetic operation that is essentially performed in the circuit 60; thus, a burden of the arithmetic operation on the circuit 60 can be reduced. Moreover, the number of times of data transmission and reception between the circuits 50 and 60 can be reduced. Furthermore, the circuit 50 functioning as a memory circuit can have a function of performing an arithmetic operation while the increase in the area of the circuit 50 is suppressed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180082747A1 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND HEALTHCARE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-03-22
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