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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2016
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Jong Kyung Park, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Ji Hyun Seo, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 16/3427 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided a semiconductor memory device and an operating method thereof. A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of pages; a peripheral circuit suitable for performing a program operation by applying a program voltage, a pass voltage, and a pipe transistor operation voltage, to the memory cell array; and a control logic suitable for controlling the peripheral circuit to perform the program operation, wherein the control logic adjusts a potential level of the pipe transistor operation voltage according to an address of a selected page among the plurality of pages.