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Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 30, 2015
Applicant:

Renesas Electronics Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Naoya Arisaka, Tokyo, JP;

Masataka Minami, Tokyo, JP;

Takahiro Miki, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01K 7/01 (2006.01); H03K 21/00 (2006.01); H03K 21/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01K 7/01 (2013.01); H03K 21/00 (2013.01); H03K 21/38 (2013.01); G01K 2217/00 (2013.01); G01K 2219/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides a semiconductor device having a sensor capable of improving precision while suppressing increase in occupation area. A semiconductor device has: a first counter; and a second counter (time measuring circuit) measuring time until a count value, which is obtained by counting a first signal having a frequency corresponding to a first voltage, reaches a largest count value which can be counted by the first counter. The first counter obtains a piece of digital information corresponding to the first voltage on the basis of a count value obtained by counting a second signal having a frequency corresponding to a second voltage, which is different from the first voltage, on the basis of the time measured by the time measuring circuit.


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