Non-volatile logic circuit and system LSI having the same
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakayoshi Yamada, Yoshihisa Kato
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Abstract
A non-volatile logic circuit according to the present invention is comprised of: a logic circuit block; and an input/output unit operable to input and output data between the logic circuit block and the input/output unit and between a data bus and the input/output unit, wherein the input/output unit has a non-volatile data holding circuit which holds the data. Furthermore, a system large-scale integration (LSI) according to the present invention is comprised of a plurality of non-volatile logic circuits which are connected with one another via a data bus.
Claims7
A non-volatile logic circuit comprising:
- a logic circuit block;
- and
- an input/output unit operable to input and output data between said logic circuit block and a data bus,
- wherein said input/output unit has a non-volatile data holding circuit which holds the data.
A system large-scale integration (LSI) comprising
- a plurality of non-volatile logic circuits which are connected to a data bus,
- wherein said non-volatile logic circuit has:
- a logic circuit block;
- and
- an input/output unit operable to input and output data between said logic circuit block and a data bus,
- wherein said input/output unit has a non-volatile data holding circuit which holds the data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.