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公开(公告)号:US12040795B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-16
申请号:US17413791
申请日:2019-12-10
Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Hiroki Inoue , Munehiro Kozuma , Takeshi Aoki , Shuji Fukai , Fumika Akasawa , Shintaro Harada , Sho Nagao
IPC: H03K19/094 , H01L27/06
CPC classification number: H03K19/094 , H01L27/0629
Abstract: A semiconductor device using unipolar transistors, in which high and low levels are expressed using high and low power supply potentials, is provided. The semiconductor device includes four transistors, two capacitors, two wirings, two input terminals, and an output terminal. A source or a drain of the first transistor and a source or a drain of the fourth transistor are electrically connected to the first wiring. A gate of the fourth transistor is electrically connected to the first input terminal, and a gate of the second transistor is electrically connected to the second input terminal. A source or a drain of the second transistor and a source or a drain of the third transistor are electrically connected to the second wiring. The first transistor, the second transistor, and the two capacitors are electrically connected to the output terminal.
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公开(公告)号:US11227543B2
公开(公告)日:2022-01-18
申请号:US16489716
申请日:2018-02-26
Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
Inventor: Shintaro Harada , Yoshiyuki Kurokawa , Takeshi Aoki , Yuki Okamoto , Hiroki Inoue , Koji Kusunoki , Yosuke Tsukamoto , Katsuki Yanagawa , Kei Takahashi , Shunpei Yamazaki
Abstract: An electronic device capable of efficiently recognizing a handwritten character is provided.
The electronic device includes a first circuit, a display portion, and a touch sensor. The first circuit includes a neural network. The display portion includes a flexible display. The touch sensor has the function of outputting an input handwritten character as image information to the first circuit. The first circuit has the function of analyzing the image information and converting the image information into character information, and a function of displaying an image including the character information on the display portion. The analysis is performed by inference through the use of the neural network.-
公开(公告)号:US11099814B2
公开(公告)日:2021-08-24
申请号:US15729150
申请日:2017-10-10
Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Shintaro Harada , Yoshiyuki Kurokawa , Takeshi Aoki
IPC: G06F7/544 , G06N3/063 , H01L29/786 , G06N3/04
Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of performing product-sum operation is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell, and an offset circuit. The semiconductor device retains first analog data and reference analog data in the first memory cell and the second memory cell, respectively. A potential corresponding to second analog data is applied to each of them as a selection signal, whereby current depending on the sum of products of the first analog data and the second analog data is obtained. The offset circuit includes a constant current circuit comprising a transistor and a capacitor. A first terminal of the transistor is electrically connected to a first gate of the transistor and a first terminal of the capacitor. A second gate of the transistor is electrically connected to a second terminal of the capacitor. A voltage between the first terminal and the second gate of the transistor is held in the capacitor, whereby a change in source-drain current of the transistor can be suppressed.
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公开(公告)号:US10230368B2
公开(公告)日:2019-03-12
申请号:US15191763
申请日:2016-06-24
Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Munehiro Kozuma , Yoshiyuki Kurokawa , Takayuki Ikeda , Takeshi Aoki
IPC: H03K19/00 , H03K19/173 , H03K19/177 , H01L27/12 , H01L29/786 , H03K19/0944 , H01L29/24
Abstract: A programmable logic device includes a plurality of programmable logic elements (PLE) whose electrical connection is controlled by first configuration data. Each of The PLEs includes an LUT in which a relationship between a logic level of an input signal and a logic level of an output signal is determined by second configuration data, an FF to which the output signal of the LUT is input, and an MUX. The MUX includes at least two switches each including first and second transistor. A signal including third configuration data is input to a gate of the second transistor through the first transistor. The output signal of the LUT or an output signal of the FF is input to one of a source and a drain of the second transistor.
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公开(公告)号:US10141054B2
公开(公告)日:2018-11-27
申请号:US15232106
申请日:2016-08-09
Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Takeshi Aoki , Munehiro Kozuma , Yoshiyuki Kurokawa
Abstract: A semiconductor device that has a long data retention time during stop of supply of power supply voltage by reducing leakage current due to miniaturization of a semiconductor element. In a structure where charge corresponding to data is held with the use of low off-state current of a transistor containing an oxide semiconductor in its channel formation region, a transistor for reading data and a transistor for storing charge are separately provided, thereby decreasing leakage current flowing through a gate insulating film.
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公开(公告)号:US09825038B2
公开(公告)日:2017-11-21
申请号:US15467142
申请日:2017-03-23
Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Takeshi Aoki
IPC: H01L27/108 , H01L27/105 , H01L27/12 , H01L29/786 , H01L29/24
CPC classification number: H01L27/1052 , H01L27/108 , H01L27/10873 , H01L27/1156 , H01L27/1225 , H01L27/124 , H01L27/1255 , H01L29/24 , H01L29/7869 , H01L2924/0002 , H01L2924/00012
Abstract: To provide a semiconductor memory device which can be manufactured with high yield and which can achieve higher integration. A pair of memory cells adjacent to each other in the bit line direction is connected to a bit line through a common contact hole. The pair of memory cells adjacent to each other in the bit line direction shares an electrode connected to the bit line. An oxide semiconductor layer included in the memory cell is provided to overlap with a word line and a capacitor line. A transistor and a capacitor included in the memory cell are each provided to overlap with the bit line connected to the memory cell.
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公开(公告)号:US09515107B2
公开(公告)日:2016-12-06
申请号:US14986119
申请日:2015-12-31
Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kurokawa , Takayuki Ikeda , Hikaru Tamura , Munehiro Kozuma , Masataka Ikeda , Takeshi Aoki
IPC: H04N5/355 , H01L27/146 , H01L29/786 , H01L31/105
CPC classification number: H01L27/14616 , H01L27/14603 , H01L27/14632 , H01L27/14636 , H01L27/14643 , H01L29/7869 , H01L31/1055 , H04N5/361 , H04N5/374 , H04N5/378
Abstract: In a CMOS image sensor in which a plurality of pixels is arranged in a matrix, a transistor in which a channel formation region includes an oxide semiconductor is used for each of a charge accumulation control transistor and a reset transistor which are in a pixel portion. After a reset operation of the signal charge accumulation portion is performed in all the pixels arranged in the matrix, a charge accumulation operation by the photodiode is performed in all the pixels, and a read operation of a signal from the pixel is performed per row. Accordingly, an image can be taken without a distortion.
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公开(公告)号:US12120443B2
公开(公告)日:2024-10-15
申请号:US17793104
申请日:2021-01-08
Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kurokawa , Munehiro Kozuma , Takeshi Aoki , Takuro Kanemura
IPC: H04N25/74 , H01L27/12 , H01L29/786 , H10B12/00 , H10K39/32
CPC classification number: H04N25/74 , H10K39/32 , H01L27/1207 , H01L27/1225 , H01L27/1255 , H01L29/78648 , H01L29/7869 , H10B12/00
Abstract: A semiconductor device that has low power consumption and is capable of performing a product-sum operation is provided. The semiconductor device includes first and second cells, a first circuit, and first to third wirings. Each of the first and second cells includes a capacitor, and a first terminal of each of the capacitors is electrically connected to the third wiring. Each of the first and second cells has a function of feeding a current based on a potential held at a second terminal of the capacitor, to a corresponding one of the first and second wirings. The first circuit is electrically connected to the first and second wirings and stores currents I1 and I2 flowing through the first and second wirings. When the potential of the third wiring changes and accordingly the amount of current of the first wiring changes from I1 to I3 and the amount of current of the second wiring changes from I2 to I4, the first circuit generates a current with an amount I1−I2−I3+I4. Note that the potential of the third wiring is changed by firstly inputting a reference potential to the third wiring and then inputting a potential based on internal data or a potential based on information obtained by a sensor.
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公开(公告)号:US11916065B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-27
申请号:US17425348
申请日:2020-02-13
Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Kei Takahashi , Takeshi Aoki
IPC: H01L27/06 , H01L29/786 , H03F3/16 , H02J7/00
CPC classification number: H01L27/0629 , H01L29/7869 , H03F3/16 , H02J7/0029
Abstract: A novel comparison circuit, a novel amplifier circuit, a novel battery control circuit, a novel battery protection circuit, a power storage device, a semiconductor device, an electronic device, and the like are provided. The semiconductor device includes a capacitor, a first amplifier circuit including a first output terminal electrically connected to a first electrode of the capacitor, and a second amplifier circuit including an input terminal, a second output terminal, a first transistor, and a second transistor; a second electrode of the capacitor is electrically connected to the input terminal; the input terminal is electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor and one of a source and a drain of the second transistor; one of a source and a drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to the second output terminal; the second transistor has a function of supplying a potential to the input terminal and holding the potential; and a channel formation region of the second transistor includes a metal oxide containing at least one of indium and gallium.
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公开(公告)号:US11139327B2
公开(公告)日:2021-10-05
申请号:US16591983
申请日:2019-10-03
Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kurokawa , Takayuki Ikeda , Hikaru Tamura , Munehiro Kozuma , Masataka Ikeda , Takeshi Aoki
IPC: H01L27/146 , H04N5/374 , H04N5/378 , H01L29/786 , H01L31/105 , H04N5/361
Abstract: In a CMOS image sensor in which a plurality of pixels is arranged in a matrix, a transistor in which a channel formation region includes an oxide semiconductor is used for each of a charge accumulation control transistor and a reset transistor which are in a pixel portion. After a reset operation of the signal charge accumulation portion is performed in all the pixels arranged in the matrix, a charge accumulation operation by the photodiode is performed in all the pixels, and a read operation of a signal from the pixel is performed per row. Accordingly, an image can be taken without a distortion.
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