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Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 13, 2014
Applicant:

SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Young-Suk Moon, Yongin-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Hong-Sik Kim, Seongnam-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Assignee:

SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/123 (2016.01); G06F 12/0868 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/123 (2013.01); G06F 12/0868 (2013.01); G06F 2212/312 (2013.01); G06F 2212/466 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7204 (2013.01);
Abstract

A semiconductor device may include a first address cache configured to store a physical address of a semiconductor memory device and a write count associated with the physical address, an address monitor configured to update the physical address and the write count in the first address cache based on a received write request, and an arbiter configured to store a write address and write data associated with the write request in a write cache in response to a command from the address monitor, wherein the command generated by the address monitor is based on whether an update is made to the physical address and the write count in first address cache.


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