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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2018
Applicant:
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Yuri Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/68 (2006.01); G01R 29/12 (2006.01); H03F 3/45 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/68 (2013.01); G01R 29/12 (2013.01); H03F 3/45076 (2013.01);
Abstract
To provide a semiconductor device that makes it possible to reduce a cell circuit area and an increase in resolution. There is provided a semiconductor device including: a first region in which readout cells are arranged in an array form, the readout cells having one of input transistors included in a differential amplifier: and a second region in which reference cells are arranged in an array form, the reference cells having another input transistor included in the differential amplifier, the first region and the second region being separated from each other.