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Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 23, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Young-Hwa Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;

Tae-Young Oh, Seoul, KR;

Jin-Hoon Jang, Uiwang-si, KR;

Seok-Jin Cho, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/14 (2006.01); G11C 11/4093 (2006.01); G11C 11/4074 (2006.01); G11C 11/4096 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/14 (2013.01); G11C 11/4074 (2013.01); G11C 11/4093 (2013.01); G11C 11/4096 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory device having a plurality of voltage regions and a method of operating the same are provided. The memory device includes a memory cell array, a data path region including data processing blocks transmitting read/write data from/to the memory cell array during read/write operations, and a control signal path region including control blocks controlling the data processing blocks during the read/write operations. The data path region selectively receives a first high power voltage or a first low power voltage in accordance with an operating mode of the memory device. The control signal path region receives the first high power voltage regardless of the operating mode.


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