Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods of operating semiconductor memory devices with selective write-back of data for error scrubbing and related devices
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Application No.: US15969042Application Date: 2018-05-02
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Publication No.: US10198221B2Publication Date: 2019-02-05
- Inventor: Sang-Uhn Cha , Hoi-Ju Chung , Uk-Song Kang
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR
- Agency: Ward and Smith, P.A.
- Priority: KR10-2015-0145731 20151020
- Main IPC: G11C11/34
- IPC: G11C11/34 ; G06F3/06 ; G11C29/52 ; G06F11/10 ; G11C11/16

Abstract:
A method of scrubbing errors from a semiconductor memory device including a memory cell array and an error correction circuit, can be provided by accessing a page of the memory cell array to provide a data that includes sub units that are separately writable to the page of memory and to provide parity data configured to detect and correct a bit error in the data and selectively enabling write-back of a selected sub unit of the data responsive to determining that the selected sub unit of data includes a correctable error upon access as part of an error scrubbing operation.
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