Electronic device

• US 9,804,719 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2015
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Takemura, Yasuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Siddiqui, Md Saiful A
• Application Number:
  US14/919,252
• Publication Number:
  US 20160117020A1
• Time in Patent Office: 741 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 27/00 Arrangements for measuring resistance, reactance, impedance, or electric characteristics derived therefrom
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04166 Details of scanning methods, e.g. sampling time, grouping of sub areas or time sharing with display driving Synchronisation with the driving of the display or the backlighting unit to avoid interferences generated internally G06F3/04184
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0446 using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 11/1653 Address circuits or decoders
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 11/1673 Reading or sensing circuits or methods
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 11/1693 Timing circuits or methods

Abstract

The accuracy of reading characteristics or data of pixels or memory cells in a matrix device is increased. An electronic device includes a plurality of drive lines, a sense line intersecting the drive lines, a plurality of element devices provided at intersections thereof, a detecting circuit, a decoder, and a driver. The detecting circuit can detect a first physical quantity of the sense line and transmit a digital signal obtained by digitizing the first physical quantity to the decoder. Each of the element devices can change the first physical quantity of the sense line in accordance with a signal of the corresponding drive line. The driver can transmit coded signals based on a Hadamard matrix to the decoder and the drive lines. The decoder can perform arithmetic processing with use of the coded signals and the digital signal and calculate values based on second physical quantities of the element devices.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

N first wirings;

a second wiring intersecting the N first wirings;

first to N-th element devices provided at intersections of the N first wirings and the second wiring;

a detecting circuit;

a decoder; and

a driver,

wherein the first to N-th element devices include an n-th element device (n is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N),

wherein the detecting circuit is capable of detecting a first physical quantity of the second wiring and transmitting a digital signal obtained by digitizing the first physical quantity to the decoder,

wherein each of the first to N-th element devices is capable of changing the first physical quantity in accordance with a signal of a corresponding one of the N first wirings,

wherein the driver is capable of transmitting coded signals based on a Hadamard matrix to the decoder and the N first wirings,

wherein the decoder is capable of performing arithmetic processing with use of the coded signals and the digital signal and calculating a value based on a second physical quantity of the n-th element device, and

wherein the value based on the second physical quantity of the n-th element device is calculated as a difference from a value based on a second physical quantity of one of the first to N-th element devices excluding the n-th element device.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the Hadamard matrix is created by Sylvester'"'"'s method and has an order which is greater than or equal to 4 and is a power of 2.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the first physical quantity is any one of a current, a potential and a voltage.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the second physical quantity is any one of a resistance, a capacitance and a current value.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the decoder comprises first to N-th arithmetic circuits, and

wherein the digital signal and a signal input to one of the N first wirings are input to each of the arithmetic circuits.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a demultiplexer between the driver and the N first wirings.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a delay circuit between the driver and the decoder.

8. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein each of the element devices is a memory cell capable of storing multi-level data or analog data.

9. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the driver is configured not to output coded signals corresponding to the first column of the Hadamard matrix, and

wherein the detecting circuit is configured not to detect the first physical quantity of the second wiring at that time.

10. A method for an electronic device comprising:

N first wirings;

a second wiring intersecting the N first wirings;

first to N-th element devices (including an n-th element device (n is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N)) provided at intersections of the N first wirings and the second wiring;

a detecting circuit;

a decoder; and

a driver,

wherein the first to N-th element devices include an n-th element device (n is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N),

wherein the detecting circuit is capable of detecting a first physical quantity of the second wiring and transmitting a digital signal obtained by digitizing the first physical quantity to the decoder, and

wherein each of the first to N-th element devices is capable of changing the first physical quantity in accordance with a signal of a corresponding one of the N first wirings,

the method comprising;

transmitting coded signals based on a Hadamard matrix from the driver to the decoder and the N first wirings; and

performing arithmetic processing with use of the coded signals and the digital signal and calculating a value based on a second physical quantity of the n-th element device,

wherein the value based on the second physical quantity of the n-th element device is calculated as a difference from a value based on a second physical quantity of one of the first to N-th element devices excluding the n-th element device.

11. The method for the electronic device according to claim 10, wherein the Hadamard matrix is created by Sylvester'"'"'s method and has an order which is greater than or equal to 4 and is a power of 2.

12. The method for the electronic device according to claim 10, wherein the first physical quantity is any one of a current, a potential and a voltage.

13. The method for the electronic device according to claim 10, wherein the second physical quantity is any one of a resistance, a capacitance and a current value.

14. The method for the electronic device according to claim 10,

wherein the decoder comprises first to N-th arithmetic circuits, and

wherein the digital signal and a signal input to one of the N first wirings are input to each of the arithmetic circuits.

15. The method for the electronic device according to claim 10, wherein the coded signals are transmitted via a demultiplexer to one of the N first wirings.

16. The method for the electronic device according to claim 10, wherein the coded signals are transmitted via a delay circuit to the decoder.

17. The method for the electronic device according to claim 10, wherein each of the element devices is a memory cell capable of storing multi-level data or analog data.

18. The method for the electronic device according to claim 10,

wherein the driver is configured not to output coded signals corresponding to the first column of the Hadamard matrix, and

wherein the detecting circuit is configured not to detect the first physical quantity of the second wiring at that time.