Robinson Intellectual Property Law Office, P.C.
Semiconductor device and driving method thereof
The invention provides a semiconductor device which can suppress a variation of clock signals. According to the invention, a single clock signal is divided into a plurality of clock signals and supplied to each of a plurality of circuits in a semiconductor device. Propagation delay time of each of the clock signals is not completely fixed in a design phase, but a circuit (variable delay circuit) which can appropriately change propagation delay time of a clock signal even after forming the semiconductor device is provided. By using the variable delay circuit, a variation in the propagation delay time is compensated so that a circuit provided in a subsequent stage of the variable delay circuit can operate normally on a desired condition. In specific, a phase of each clock signal is controlled.
Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
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