Seiko Epson Corporation

Takashi Kumagai

Satoru Kodaira

Junichi Karasawa

Satoru Ito

Kazuhiro Maekawa

Hisanobu Ishiyama

Noboru Itomi

Takashi Fujise

Shuji Kawaguchi

Takafumi Noda

Masahiro Takeuchi

Kunio Watanabe

Kazuo Tanaka

Masahiko Moriguchi

Kanji Natori

Takayuki Saiki

Katsuhiko Maki

Yasunobu Tokuda

Hiroyuki Takamiya

Yasuhiko Tomohiro

Kimihiro Maemura

Koji Miyashita

Toshio Orii

An integrated circuit device includes at least one data driver block for driving data lines, a plurality of control transistors TCand TC, each of the control transistors being provided corresponding to each output line of the data driver block and controlled by using a common control signal, and a pad arrangement region in which data driver pads Pand Pfor electrically connecting the data lines and the output lines QLand QLof the data driver block are disposed. The control transistors TCand TCare disposed in the pad arrangement region.

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An integrated circuit device includes first to Nth circuit blocks CBto CBN, a first interface region disposed along a fourth side and on the Dside of the first to Nth circuit blocks CBto CBN, and a second interface region disposed along a second side and on the Dside of the first to Nth circuit blocks CBto CBN. A local line LLG formed using a wiring layer lower than an Ith layer is provided between the adjacent circuit blocks as at least one of a signal line and a power supply line. Global lines GLG and GLD formed using the Ith or higher wiring layer are provided along the direction Dover the circuit block disposed between the nonadjacent circuit blocks as at least one of a signal line and a power supply line.

An integrated circuit device includes first to Nth circuit blocks (N is an integer of two or more) disposed along the long side of the integrated circuit device. One circuit block of the first to Nth circuit blocks is a logic circuit block, and another circuit block of the first to Nth circuit blocks is a programmable ROM of which at least part of data stored therein can be programmed by a user. The logic circuit block and the programmable ROM block are adjacently disposed along a first direction. At least part of information stored in the programmable ROM block is supplied to the logic circuit block.

An integrated circuit device includes first and second transistors NTrand PTrpush-pull connected between first and second power supply lines and outputting a voltage of one of the first and second power supply lines to a connection node ND by a charge-pump operation, and a pad PD electrically connected with the connection node ND and electrically connected with a flying capacitor, to which a given voltage is applied at one end, at the other end of the flying capacitor. The pad PD is disposed in an upper layer of at least one of the first and second transistors NTrand PTrso that the pad PD overlaps part or the entirety of at least one of the first and second transistors NTrand PTr

An integrated circuit device includes a pad PDx and an electrostatic discharge protection element ESDx formed in a rectangular region and electrically connected with the pad PDx. The pad PDx is disposed in an upper layer of the electrostatic discharge protection element ESDx so that an arrangement direction of the pads is parallel to a long side direction of the region in which the electrostatic discharge protection element ESDx is formed, and the pad PDx overlaps part or the entirety of the electrostatic discharge protection element ESDx.

An integrated circuit device has a display memory which stores data for at least one frame displayed in a display panel which has a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines, the display memory includes a plurality of RAM blocks, each of the RAM blocks including a plurality of wordlines, a plurality of bitlines, a plurality of memory cells, and a wordline control circuit, each of the RAM blocks is disposed along a first direction in which the bitlines extend, each of the memory cells has a short side and a long side, the bitlines are formed along a direction in which the long side of the memory cell extends, and the wordlines are formed along a direction in which the short side of the memory cell extends.

An integrated circuit device having a display memory which stores data for at least one frame from among image information displayed in a display panel which has a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines, the display memory including a plurality of wordlines, a plurality of bitlines, a plurality of memory cells, and a wordline control circuit; and the wordline control circuit selecting an identical wordline N times (N is an integer larger than one) from among the wordlines in one horizontal scan period of the display panel.

An integrated circuit device includes a display memory and a data read control circuit. The data read control circuit controls data reading so that data of pixels corresponding to a plurality of signal lines is read out by N-time reading in one horizontal scan period of a display panel (N is an integer larger than 1). The display memory includes a plurality of sense amplifier cells respectively connected with a plurality of bitlines. L sense amplifier cells (L is an integer larger than 1) respectively connected with the bitlines of L memory cells adjacent in a first direction (wordline direction) in which wordlines extend are disposed along a second direction (bitline direction) in which the bitlines extend.

An integrated circuit device including first to Nth circuit blocks CBto CBN disposed along a first direction D, when the first direction Dis a direction from a first side of the integrated circuit device toward a third side which is opposite to the first side, the first side being a short side, and when a second direction Dis a direction from a second side of the integrated circuit device toward a fourth side which is opposite to the second side, the second side being a long side. The circuit blocks CBto CBN include at least one memory block MB which stores image data, and at least one data driver block DB which drives data lines. The memory block MB and the data driver block DB are disposed adjacent to each other along the first direction D

An integrated circuit device includes first to Nth circuit blocks CBto CBN disposed along a direction Dwhen a direction from a first side which is a short side of the integrated circuit device toward a third side opposite to the first side is a direction Dand a direction from a second side which is a long side of the integrated circuit device toward a fourth side opposite to the second side is a direction DAt least one of the circuit blocks on both ends of the circuit blocks CBto CBN is a scan driver block for driving a scan line. Or, the scan driver block SB is disposed along the direction Don the side of the first to Nth circuit blocks in the direction D

An integrated circuit device having a display memory which stores data for at least one frame from among image information displayed in a display panel which has a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines, wherein the display memory includes a plurality of RAM blocks each of which includes first and second RAM block regions; wherein each of the RAM blocks includes a wordline control circuit which controls a plurality of wordlines provided in each of the first and second RAM block regions; wherein the wordline control circuit is disposed between the first and second RAM block regions; wherein the first and second RAM block regions are disposed along a first direction; and wherein the wordlines extend along the first direction.

In an integrated circuit device, a data line driver block which drives data lines of a display panel based on data supplied from a RAM block from which data is read N times (N is an integer larger than one) in one horizontal scan period 1H of the display panel includes first to N-th divided data line driver blocks disposed along a first direction in which bitlines extend. When data supplied from the RAM block is M bits (M is an integer larger than 1) and grayscale of a pixel corresponding to the data line is G bits, each of the first to N-th divided data line driver blocks includes (M/G) (multiple of three) data line driver cells which drive (M/G) data lines. (M/3G) R data line driver cells are provided in a first subdivided driver, (M/3G) G data line driver cells are provided in a second subdivided driver, and (M/3G) B data line driver cells are provided in a third subdivided driver.

An integrated circuit device has a display memory which stores data for at least one frame displayed in a display panel which has a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines. The display memory includes a plurality of RAM blocks, each of the RAM blocks including a plurality of wordlines WL, a plurality of bitlines BL, a plurality of memory cells MC, and a data read control circuit. Each of the RAM blocks is disposed along a first direction X in which the bitlines BL extend. The data read control circuit controls data reading so that data for pixels corresponding to the signal lines is read out by N times reading in one horizontal scan period 1H of the display panel (N is an integer larger than 1).

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Takashi Kumagai