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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2018
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Min Ho Her, Cheongju-si, KR;
Dong Hyun Kim, Icheon-si, KR;
Jeong Hoon Park, Cheongju-si, KR;
Youn Ho Jung, Cheongju-si, KR;
Seung Ju Ha, Cheongju-si, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
Provided herein is a memory device and a method of operating the memory device. The memory device may include a one or more memory blocks, one or more peripheral circuits configured to perform an erase operation and a threshold voltage distribution scan operation on a selected memory block, and a control logic configured to control the one or more peripheral circuits, and determine the selected memory block to be a normal memory block or a defective memory block based on a result of the threshold voltage distribution scan operation.