Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for driving semiconductor device and semiconductor device
- Patent Title (中): 半导体器件和半导体器件的驱动方法
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Application No.: US14201068Application Date: 2014-03-07
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Publication No.: US09171630B2Publication Date: 2015-10-27
- Inventor: Shuhei Nagatsuka , Hiroki Inoue , Takahiko Ishizu , Takanori Matsuzaki , Yutaka Shionoiri , 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: JP2013-051145 20130314
- Main IPC: G11C16/24
- IPC: G11C16/24 ; G11C11/56 ; G11C16/04 ; G11C16/08

Abstract:
To read multilevel data from a memory cell having a transistor using silicon and a transistor using an oxide semiconductor, without switching a signal for reading the multilevel data in accordance with the number of the levels of the multilevel data. The electrical charge of a bit line is discharged, the potential of the bit line is charged via a transistor for writing data, and the potential of the bit line which is changed by the charging is read as multilevel data. With such a structure, the potential corresponding to data held in a gate of the transistor can be read by only one-time switching of a signal for reading data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140269063A1 METHOD FOR DRIVING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Public/Granted day:2014-09-18
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