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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
May. 21, 2018
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
In an embodiment a semiconductor device may include a weakness detector configured to manage error occurrence information by dividing the memory device into a plurality of areas, to control a first refresh period for a first refresh request at each of the plurality of areas based on the error occurrence information and to generate a second refresh request for a second refresh address included in each of the plurality of areas based on the error occurrence information, and a refresh controller configured to generate a first refresh command according to the first refresh period and output the first refresh command to the memory device and to output a second refresh command and the second refresh address to the memory device according to the second refresh request and the second refresh address.