• Patent Title: Semiconductor memory device and refresh operation method, including input circuit, plurality of latches, plurality of counters and refresh controller for generating reset signals
  • Application No.: US17353004
    Application Date: 2021-06-21
  • Publication No.: US11551740B2
    Publication Date: 2023-01-10
  • Inventor: Woongrae KimKwi Dong Kim
  • Applicant: SK hynix Inc.
  • Applicant Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
  • Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
  • Current Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
  • Current Assignee Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
  • Agency: IP & T Group LLP
  • Priority: KR10-2021-0006102 20210115
  • Main IPC: G11C11/406
  • IPC: G11C11/406
Semiconductor memory device and refresh operation method, including input circuit, plurality of latches, plurality of counters and refresh controller for generating reset signals
Abstract:
A semiconductor memory device includes: an input control circuit suitable for providing an active address which is input together with an active command, as an input address; a plurality of latches suitable for sequentially storing, as a latch address, the input address according to input control signals and outputting the latch addresses as a target address according to output control signals; a plurality of counters respectively corresponding to the latches and each suitable for increasing, when the active address matches the latch address stored in the latch, a counting value corresponding to the latch; and a refresh controller suitable for dividing the counters and the latches into a plurality of groups based on the counting values and generating, in response to a refresh command, reset signals for initializing the counters included in one group of the groups.
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