Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor device and method for driving semiconductor device
- Patent Title (中): 用于驱动半导体器件的半导体器件和方法
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Application No.: US14024769Application Date: 2013-09-12
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Publication No.: US09123432B2Publication Date: 2015-09-01
- Inventor: Yusuke Sekine , Kiyoshi Kato
- 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: JP2010-178146 20100806; JP2011-108643 20110513
- Main IPC: G11C11/34
- IPC: G11C11/34 ; G11C5/06 ; G11C5/14 ; G11C11/419 ; G11C16/30 ; G11C7/00 ; G11C11/40 ; G11C11/405 ; G11C11/4076 ; G11C11/56 ; G11C13/00 ; G11C11/4074

Abstract:
A semiconductor device with a novel structure is provided, in which the operation voltage is reduced or the storage capacity is increased by reducing variation in the threshold voltages of memory cells after writing. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of memory cells each including a transistor including an oxide semiconductor and a transistor including a material other than an oxide semiconductor, a driver circuit that drives the plurality of memory cells, and a potential generating circuit that generates a plurality of potentials supplied to the driver circuit. The driver circuit includes a data buffer, a writing circuit that writes one potential of the plurality of potentials into each of the plurality of memory cells as data, a reading circuit that reads the data written into the memory cells, and a verifying circuit that verifies whether the read data agrees with data held in the data buffer or not.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140016407A1 Semiconductor Device And Method For Driving Semiconductor Device Public/Granted day:2014-01-16
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