Shift register
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShige Furuta, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Yasushi Sasaki, Shinsaku Shimizu
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AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShige Furuta, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Yasushi Sasaki, Shinsaku Shimizu
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In one embodiment of the present invention, a unit circuit of a shift register includes a bootstrap circuit configured with a transistor T1, a transistor T2 and a capacitor, a transistor T3, a transistor T4, and a reset signal generation circuit. By use of two-phase clock signals and whose high level periods do not overlap with each other, the reset signal generation circuit generates a reset signal which is at a high level in a normal state and changes to a low level when an input signal turns into the high level. During a period that the reset signal is at the high level, transistors T3 and T4 perform discharge of a node and pull-down of an output signal. Thus, it is possible to obtain a power-saving shift register that fixes an output signal at a low level in a normal state without allowing a through current to flow therein.
A shift register having a configuration in that unit circuits each configured with transistors of an identical conduction type are cascaded, and operating based on two-phase clock signals whose on-level periods do not overlap with each other, wherein
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