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.: US14200430Application Date: 2014-03-07
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Publication No.: US09240244B2Publication Date: 2016-01-19
- Inventor: Shuhei Nagatsuka , Hiroki Inoue , Takahiko Ishizu , Takanori Matsuzaki , Yutaka Shionoiri , Kiyoshi Kato
- Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa-ken
- Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa-ken
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: JP2013-051141 20130314
- Main IPC: G11C16/04
- IPC: G11C16/04 ; G11C16/24 ; G11C11/56 ; G11C16/08 ; H01L27/115 ; H01L29/786 ; H01L27/12

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 potential of the bit line is precharged, the electrical charge of the bit line is discharged via a transistor for writing data, and the potential of the bit line which is changed by the discharging 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
- US20140269099A1 METHOD FOR DRIVING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Public/Granted day:2014-09-18
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