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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2020
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Sung Hoon Cho, Icheon-si, KR;
Jae Sung Sim, Icheon-si, KR;
Han Soo Joo, Icheon-si, KR;
Hee Chang Chae, Icheon-si, KR;
Se Kyoung Choi, Icheon-si, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Abstract
Provided herein may be a semiconductor memory device and a method of operating the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device may include: a memory block including upper pages, a center page, and lower pages; a peripheral circuit configured to perform a read operation on the memory block; and a control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit to perform the read operation and control the peripheral circuit such that, during the read operation, based on a location of a selected page among the plurality of pages, a pass voltage to be applied to first adjacent pages disposed adjacent to the selected page in a first direction differs from a pass voltage to be applied to second adjacent pages disposed adjacent to the selected page in a second direction.