Semiconductor integrated circuit
AssigneeSemiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
InventorJun KOYAMA
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Abstract
Provided is a semiconductor device including a sequential circuit including a first transistor and a capacitor. The first transistor includes a semiconductor layer including indium, zinc, and oxygen to form a channel formation region. A node electrically connected to a source or a drain of the first transistor and a capacitor becomes a floating state when the first transistor turns off, so that a potential of the node can be maintained for a long period. A power-gating control circuit may be provided to control supply of power supply potential to the sequential circuit. The potential of the node still can be maintained while supply of the power supply potential is stopped.
Claims1
A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising:
- a storage circuit configured to hold data obtained by arithmetic operation;
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- a power-gating control circuit configured to control supply of a power supply voltage to the storage circuit,
- wherein the storage circuit includes first to n-th sequential circuits (n is a natural number of 2 or more), and first to n-th combinational circuits configured to operate with an output signal from the respective first to n-th sequential circuits, and
- wherein each of k sequential circuits (k is a natural number of 1 to n) among the first to n-th sequential circuits includes a transistor whose channel region comprises an oxide semiconductor, and a capacitor having one of electrodes electrically connected to a node that is brought into a floating state when the transistor is turned off.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.