Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jooyong Park

Daeseok Byeon

Pansuk Kwak

Chanho Kim

Minsu Kim

Bongsoon Lim

Hongsoo Jeon

Jin-Young Kim

Sangwon Park

Seungyeon Kim

Wontaeck Jung

Kuihan Ko

Nayeon Kim

Dongjin Shin

Beakhyung Cho

Jiwon Seo

Seungyong Choi

Suchang Jeon

Homoon Shin

Sang-won Park

Seokmin Yoon

Han Il Park

Seungyong Hyun

Takuya Futatsuyama

Disclosed is a memory system including a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device includes a package of a first memory chip configured to receive input/output signals through first input/output pads and a second memory chip having second input/output pads connected to the first input/output pads by a mapping connection. The memory controller configured to provide the input/output signals to the memory device. The second memory chip is configured to receive input/output signals different from the input/output signals provided by the memory controller to the first memory chip due to the mapping connection. The first and second memory chips are configured to selectively ignore the input/output signals provided by the memory controller based on the mapping connection.

Memory device reducing i/o signal lines through i/o mapping connection and memory system including the same

A memory device includes a memory chip including a memory cell array connected to first word lines and first bit lines, first word line bonding pads respectively connected to the first word lines, and first bit line bonding pads respectively connected to the first bit lines, and a peripheral circuit chip, wherein the peripheral circuit chip includes a test cell array connected to second word lines and second bit lines, second word line bonding pads respectively connected to the first word line bonding pads, second bit line bonding pads respectively connected to the first bit line bonding pads, and a peripheral circuit connected to the second word line bonding pads and the second word lines or the second bit line bonding pads and the second bit lines.

Memory device including memory chip and peripheral memory chip and method of manufacturing the memory device

An operation method of a memory device for programming memory cells to a plurality of program states includes providing a series of program pulses to selected memory cells, performing a first verification operation of verifying a target program state among the plurality of program states, performing, when the first verification operation is passed, a second verification operation of detecting fail cells among the selected memory cells to determine if these memory cells have been overprogrammed. When the number of detected fail cells is greater than or equal to a reference value, the program operation may be terminated for that location and the data may be written to another location.

Memory device for detecting fail cell and operation method thereof

A non-volatile memory device includes a meta area having a first region storing first initial data, and second regions storing second initial data, different from each other; a user area configured to store user data; an initialization register configured to store the first initial data or update the second initial data in whole or in part; and control logic configured to perform a read operation, a program operation, or an erase operation using the initial data stored in the initialization register.

Non-volatile memory device, storage device including the same, and operating method thereof

Provided are memory devices and memory systems. The memory device includes a memory cell array in a first semiconductor layer and including word lines stacked in a first direction, and channel structures passing through the word lines in the first direction; a control logic circuit in a second semiconductor layer located below the first semiconductor layer in the first direction; and a physical unclonable function (PUF) circuit including a plurality of through electrodes passing through the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and configured to generate PUF data according to resistance values of the plurality of through electrodes, and generate the PUF data based on a node voltage between through electrodes connected in series, among the plurality of through electrodes.

Memory device having physical unclonable function and memory system including the memory device

A memory device includes a peripheral circuit structure and a cell array structure vertically overlapping the peripheral circuit structure. The cell array structure includes a plurality of memory blocks divided into a normal cell region and a dummy cell region, and the dummy cell region includes a bit line through-electrode region. The peripheral circuit structure includes a row decoder region in which a unit row decoder circuit connected to each of n (n is a positive integer) memory blocks is arranged, and the bit line through-electrode region is disposed to correspond to the block height of the unit row decoder circuit.

Memory device having row decoder array architecture

An integrated circuit device includes; a peripheral circuit structure including a peripheral circuit, a first insulating layer covering the peripheral circuit, extension lines in the first insulating layer, and a first bonding pad in the first insulating layer, and a cell array structure including a conductive plate, a memory cell array below the conductive plate, a second insulating layer covering the memory cell array, a second bonding pad in the second insulating layer, a conductive via on the conductive plate, and a line connected to the conductive via. The first bonding pad contacts the second bonding pad, and the integrated circuit device further includes contact plugs electrically connecting the line to the extension lines.

Integrated circuit device including peripheral circuit and cell array structures, and electronic system including same

A memory device includes a memory cell array including normal memory cells and redundant memory cells; first page buffers connected to the normal memory cells through first bit lines including a first bit line group and a second bit line group and arranged in a first area corresponding to the first bit lines in a line in a first direction; and second page buffers connected to the redundant memory cells through second bit lines including a third bit line group and a fourth bit line group and arranged in a second area corresponding to the second bit lines in a line in the first direction, wherein, when at least one normal memory cell connected to the first bit line group is determined as a defective cell, normal memory cells connected to the first bit line group are replaced with redundant memory cells connected to the third bit line group.

Memory device for column repair

A memory device includes first and second chips. The first chip includes a memory cell array disposed on a first substrate, and first metal pads on a first uppermost metal layer of the first chip. The second chip includes peripheral circuits disposed on a second substrate, and second metal pads on a second uppermost metal layer of the second chip, the peripheral circuits operating the memory cell array. A first metal pad and a second metal pad are connected in a first area, the first metal pads being connected to the memory cell array and the second metal pad being connected to the peripheral circuits. A further first metal pad and a further second metal pad are connected in a second area, the further first metal pad being not connected to the memory cell array and the further second metal pad being connected to the peripheral circuits.

Memory device

A memory device includes a memory cell chip, a peripheral circuit chip, and a routing wire. The memory cell chip includes a memory cell array disposed on a first substrate, and a first metal pad on a first uppermost metal layer. The peripheral circuit chip includes circuit devices disposed on a second substrate, and a second metal pad on a second uppermost metal layer of the peripheral circuit chip. The memory cell chip and the peripheral circuit chip are vertically connected to each other by the first metal pad and the second metal pad in a bonding area. The routing wire is electrically connected to the peripheral circuit and is disposed in the first uppermost metal layer or the second uppermost metal layer and is disposed in a non-bonding area in which the memory cell chip and the peripheral circuit chip are not electrically connected to each other.

A memory device includes a first semiconductor chip including a memory cell array disposed on a first substrate, and a first bonding metal on a first uppermost metal layer of the first semiconductor chip, and a second semiconductor chip including circuit devices disposed on a second substrate and a second bonding metal on a second uppermost metal layer of the second semiconductor chip, the circuit devices providing a peripheral circuit operating the memory cell array. The first and second semiconductor chips are electrically connected to each other by the first bonding metal and the second bonding metal in a bonding area. A routing wire electrically connected to the peripheral circuit is disposed in one or both of the first and second uppermost metal layers and is disposed in a non-bonding area in which the first and second semiconductor chips are not electrically connected to each other.

A nonvolatile memory device that performs a read operation during which row decoder circuitry applies a turn on voltage to a first ground selection line selected from a plurality of ground selection lines, applies a turn off voltage to at least one second ground selection line selected from the plurality of ground selection lines, the at least one second ground selection line being selected from the plurality of ground selection lines based on a read address associated with the read operation, and applies the turn off voltage to an unselected ground selection line among the plurality of ground selection lines after applying a prepulse voltage to the unselected ground selection line.

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

Jooyong Park