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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2016
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Min Su Park, Seoul, KR;
Jin Hee Cho, Cheongju-si, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
Provided are a semiconductor device including an error correction code circuit and a driving method thereof. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of normal mats including a plurality of memory cells and connected to data lines, a plurality of dummy mats arranged in specific areas of the plurality of normal mats and inputting/outputting parity bits through parity lines of a specific circuit, a plurality of free ECC (Error Correction Code) calculation circuits that perform ECC calculation corresponding to data applied through the data lines and the parity lines, and a main ECC calculation circuit that combines data applied from the plurality of free ECC calculation circuits with one another and performs ECC calculation.