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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2018
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Hoon Shin, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Do-Yeon Kim, Seoul, KR;
Ho-Young Song, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Dong-Su Lee, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A memory device a plurality of memory banks, a hammer address manager, and a refresh controller. The hammer address manager manages access addresses with respect to the plurality of memory banks and provides a hammer address for a hammer refresh operation among the access addresses, the hammer address being the access address that is accessed more than other access addresses. The refresh controller generates a hammer refresh address signal based on the hammer address, the hammer refresh address signal corresponding to a row that is physically adjacent to a row corresponding to the hammer address such that the row physically adjacent to the row corresponding to the hammer address is refreshed by the hammer refresh operation.