Semiconductor device, driver IC, and electronic device

• US 9,984,624 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2016
• Issued: 05/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Takahashi, Kei, Yamamoto, Roh
• Primary Examiner(s): Tzeng, Fred
• Application Number:
  US15/387,273
• Publication Number:
  US 20170186371A1
• Time in Patent Office: 524 Days
• Field of Search: 345174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04107 Shielding in digitiser, i.e. guard or shielding arrangements, mostly for capacitive touchscreens, e.g. driven shields, driven grounds
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04164 Connections between sensors and controllers, e.g. routing lines between electrodes and connection pads
• 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: G09G 2300/0426 Layout of electrodes and connections
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0809 Several active elements per pixel in active matrix panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0842 forming a memory circuit, e.g. a dynamic memory with one capacitor
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3233 with pixel circuitry controlling the current through the light-emitting element

Abstract

A semiconductor device includes first to fourth terminals, a switch circuit, and an integrating circuit. The integrating circuit includes an amplifier circuit having a (−) terminal, a first (+) terminal, and a second (+) terminal. The integrating circuit is configured to integrate an input signal of the (−) terminal using an average voltage of a voltage of the first (+) terminal and a voltage of the second (+) terminal as a reference voltage. The switch circuit is configured to electrically connect the (−) terminal to the second terminal, the first (+) terminal to the first terminal, the second (+) terminal to the third terminal the (−) terminal to the third terminal, the first (+) terminal to the second terminal, and the second (+) terminal to the fourth terminal. The present semiconductor device is used as a semiconductor device sensing a current flowing through a pixel in a display panel.

Claims

1. A semiconductor device comprising:

a first terminal;

a second terminal;

a third terminal;

a first circuit; and

an amplifier circuit comprising an output terminal, an inverting input terminal, a first non-inverting input terminal, and a second non-inverting input terminal, the amplifier circuit being configured to amplify a difference between a voltage of the inverting input terminal and an average voltage of a voltage of the first non-inverting input terminal and a voltage of the second non-inverting input terminal,

wherein the first circuit has a first function, a second function, and a third function,

wherein the first function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the second terminal to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the first terminal to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the third terminal to each other,

wherein the second function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the second terminal to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the first terminal to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the first terminal to each other, and

wherein the third function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the second terminal to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the third terminal to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the third terminal to each other.

2. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, further comprising a wiring,

wherein a first voltage is input to the wiring,

wherein the first circuit has a fourth function, and

wherein the fourth function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the second terminal to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the wiring to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the wiring to each other.

3. The semiconductor device according to claim 1, further comprising a capacitor comprising a fourth terminal electrically connected to the output terminal and a fifth terminal electrically connected to the inverting input terminal.

4. A semiconductor device comprising:

a first terminal;

a second terminal;

a third terminal;

a fourth terminal;

a fifth terminal;

a first circuit;

an amplifier circuit comprising an output terminal, an inverting input terminal, a first non-inverting input terminal, and a second non-inverting input terminal, the amplifier circuit being configured to amplify a difference between a voltage of the inverting input terminal and an average voltage of a voltage of the first non-inverting input terminal and a voltage of the second non-inverting input terminal, and

a capacitor comprising a sixth terminal electrically connected to the output terminal and a seventh terminal electrically connected to the inverting input terminal,

wherein the first circuit has a first function, a second function, a third function, a fourth function, a fifth function, a sixth function, and a seventh function,

wherein the first function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the second terminal to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the first terminal to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the third terminal to each other,

wherein the second function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the third terminal to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the second terminal to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the fourth terminal to each other,

wherein the third function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the second terminal to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the first terminal to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the first terminal to each other,

wherein the fourth function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the second terminal to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the third terminal to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the third terminal to each other,

wherein the fifth function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the third terminal to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the second terminal to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the second terminal to each other,

wherein the sixth function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the third terminal to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the fourth terminal to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the fourth terminal to each other, and

wherein the seventh function is a function of electrically connecting each of the first to fourth terminals to the fifth terminal.

5. The semiconductor device according to claim 4,

wherein the first circuit has an eighth function and a ninth function,

wherein the eighth function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the second terminal to each other and electrically connecting each of the first non-inverting input terminal and the second non-inverting input terminal to the fifth terminal, and

wherein the ninth function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the third terminal to each other and electrically connecting each of the first non-inverting input terminal and the second non-inverting input terminal to the fifth terminal.

6. A driver IC comprising:

a first unit configured to generate a grayscale signal input to a first wiring; and

a second unit configured to sense a current flowing through a second wiring,

wherein the driver IC is configured to drive a display unit comprising a subpixel and the first wiring and the second wiring that are configured to be electrically connected to the subpixel, and

wherein the second unit comprises the semiconductor device according to claim 4.

7. A driver IC configured to drive a display unit comprising a pixel array, the driver IC comprising:

a first circuit configured to generate a grayscale signal;

a second circuit comprising a third circuit, an integrating circuit comprising an amplifier circuit and a capacitor, a sample-and-hold circuit configured to sample an analog signal output from the integrating circuit, and an analog-digital conversion circuit configured to convert the analog signal sampled by the sample-and-hold circuit to a digital signal;

a first output pin configured to output the grayscale signal;

a first input pin;

a second input pin;

a third input pin;

a fourth input pin; and

a fifth input pin;

wherein the first input pin, the second input pin, the third input pin, and the fourth input pin are configured to be supplied with currents flowing through the pixel array,

wherein the amplifier circuit comprises an output terminal, an inverting input terminal, a first non-inverting input terminal, and a second non-inverting input terminal,

wherein the amplifier circuit is configured to amplify a difference between a voltage of the inverting input terminal and an average voltage of a voltage of the first non-inverting input terminal and a voltage of the second non-inverting input terminal,

wherein the capacitor comprises a first terminal electrically connected to the output terminal and a second terminal electrically connected to the inverting input terminal,

wherein the third circuit has a first function, a second function, and a third function,

wherein the first function is a function of electrically connecting each of the first input pin, the second input pin, the third input pin, and the fourth input pin to the fifth input pin,

wherein the second function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the second input pin to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the first input pin to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the third input pin to each other, and

wherein the third function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the third input pin to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the second input pin to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the fourth input pin to each other.

8. The driver IC according to claim 7,

wherein the third circuit has a fourth function, a fifth function, a sixth function, and a seventh function,

wherein the fourth function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the second input pin to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the first input pin to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the first input pin to each other,

wherein the fifth function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the second input pin to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the third input pin to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the third input pin to each other,

wherein the sixth function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the third input pin to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the second input pin to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the second input pin to each other, and

wherein the seventh function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the third input pin to each other, electrically connecting the first non-inverting input terminal and the fourth input pin to each other, and electrically connecting the second non-inverting input terminal and the fourth input pin to each other.

9. The driver IC according to claim 7,

wherein the third circuit has an eighth function and a ninth function,

wherein the eighth function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the second input pin to each other and electrically connecting each of the first non-inverting input terminal and the second non-inverting input terminal to the fifth input pin, and

wherein the ninth function is a function of electrically connecting the inverting input terminal and the third input pin to each other and electrically connecting each of the first non-inverting input terminal and the second non-inverting input terminal to the fifth input pin.

10. An electronic device comprising:

wherein the display unit comprises the driver IC according to claim 7.

11. An electronic device comprising:

a touch sensor unit,

wherein the display unit comprises the driver IC according to claim 7.