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Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Seok-Jung Kim, Seoul, KR;

Young-Uk Chang, Suwon-si, KR;

Assignee:

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Samsung-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G11C 29/44 (2006.01); G11C 29/10 (2006.01); G11C 29/24 (2006.01); G11C 29/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/44 (2013.01); G11C 29/10 (2013.01); G11C 29/24 (2013.01); G11C 29/76 (2013.01); G11C 2029/0403 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory device that includes a memory cell array and control circuit in which the memory cell array includes a normal region including a first failed block and a redundant region including a first redundant block replacing the first failed block. The control circuit includes a mapping table storing replacement information. The control circuit refers to the mapping table for accessing the first redundant block. When testing the memory device, the control circuit writes '1' in the normal region and the first redundant block, writes '0' in the redundant region except the first redundant block, adds the replacement information regarding a second failed block and second redundant block in the redundant region to the mapping table and verifies the result of replacing the second failed block with the second redundant block based on entire data read from the memory cell array with respect to entire range assigned to the address signal.


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