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Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 13, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Kyung-Ryun Kim, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/18 (2006.01); G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G11C 29/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/18 (2013.01); G11C 29/44 (2013.01); G11C 29/785 (2013.01); G11C 29/806 (2013.01);
Abstract

A semiconductor memory device a memory cell array and a repair control circuit. The memory cell array including a normal cell region and a redundancy cell region, the normal cell region including a plurality of normal region groups, and redundancy cell region configured to replace failed memory cells of the normal cell region. The repair control circuit configured to, determine a target normal region group from among the plurality of normal region groups based on an input address, extract target fail addresses from among a plurality of fail addresses based on the target normal region group, and control a repair operation based on the target fail addresses and the input address.


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