Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Eun-sung Seo

Kwang-il Park

Chul-woo Park

Seung-Jun Bae

Jae-young Ahn

Hong-Sun Hwang

Hyun-Soon Jang

Ji-Hoon Choi

Soo-Young Kim

Hun-hyeong Lim

Young-jin Noh

Kwang-Min Park

Mi-Jo Kim

Hye-Jung Kwon

Young-chang Song

Memory devices and methods of operating the same are provided. The memory device including at least one internal circuit including a memory cell array and a peripheral circuit configured to drive the memory cell array, a monitor logic configured to monitor a current flowing into the at least one internal circuit and output a monitoring result, a detect logic configured to detect whether a leakage current flows in the at least one internal circuit based on the monitoring result, and output detected information regarding the leakage current, and diagnosis logic configured to diagnose an error in the at least one internal circuit based on the detected information.

Memory device, memory system, and operating method of memory device

A substrate processing apparatus including a process chamber configured to receive a plurality of substrates oriented in a horizontal manner and vertically arranged with respect to the process chamber, a process gas supply unit configured to supply at least one process gas to the process chamber through a process gas supply nozzle, the process gas supply nozzle along an inner wall of the process chamber in a direction in which the substrates are sacked, an exhaust unit configured to exhaust the process gas from the process chamber, and a blocking gas supply unit configured to supply a blocking gas through a blocking gas injector provided in a circumferential direction of the process chamber such that a flow of the process gas in the process chamber is controlled may be provided.

Substrate processing apparatus

A memory system includes at least one memory device and a memory controller. The at least one memory device includes a refresh request circuit that generates refresh request signals at timings based on data retention times of memory cells, such as based on individual data retention times of a memory cell row. The memory controller schedules operation commands for the at least one memory device in response to the received refresh request signals.

Memory devices providing a refresh request and memory controllers responsive to a refresh request

Embodiments of the invention provide a semiconductor chip and a semiconductor chip package comprising a semiconductor chip. In one embodiment, the invention provides a semiconductor chip comprising a memory cell array, a control circuit, and a chip selection signal generating circuit electrically connected to first and second option pads. In the semiconductor chip, the chip selection signal generating circuit is enabled in accordance with a dual chip enable signal, and the control circuit is enabled and disabled in accordance with the chip selection signal received from the chip selection signal generating circuit. In addition, the chip selection signal generating circuit is adapted to generate a chip selection signal in accordance with signals received through the first and second option pads, respectively.

Semiconductor chip and semiconductor chip package comprising semiconductor chip

A fuse bank of a semiconductor memory device is provided. The fuse bank includes first and second laser fuses. The first laser fuse includes a first laser fusing region disposed in a first direction, a first connecting line region bent in a second direction, and a second connecting line region bent in a third direction. The second laser fuse includes a second laser fusing region disposed in the first direction, a third connecting line region bent in the second direction, and a fourth connecting line region bent in the third direction. The first laser fuse and the second laser fuse have a space of a predetermined distance there between. The first and second laser fusing regions form a laser fusing region of the fuse bank, and the first and second laser fuse are disposed on a plane. The fuse bank is embodied on a single layer.

Layout structure of fuse bank of semiconductor memory device

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Seoul, South Korea

Eun-sung Seo