Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor memory device and method of operating semiconductor memory device
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Application No.: US17731994Application Date: 2022-04-28
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Publication No.: US11901025B2Publication Date: 2024-02-13
- Inventor: Seongjin Cho , Jungmin You
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: KR 20210134700 2021.10.12
- Main IPC: G11C29/20
- IPC: G11C29/20 ; G11C29/00 ; G11C29/44

Abstract:
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including memory cell row, each of which includes volatile memory cells, a row hammer management circuit, a repair control circuit and a connection logic. The row hammer management circuit counts access addresses associated with the memory cell rows to store counting values, and determines a hammer address associated with least one of the memory cell rows, which is intensively accessed, based on the counting values. The repair control circuit includes repair controllers, each of which includes a defective address storage, and repairs a defective memory cell row among the memory cell rows. The connection logic connects first repair controllers, which are unused for storing defective addresses, among the plurality of repair controllers, to the row hammer management circuit. The row hammer management circuit uses the first repair controllers as a storage resource to store a portion of the access addresses.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230111467A1 SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE Public/Granted day:2023-04-13
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