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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2020
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventor:
Sang Bum Lee, Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 (2006.01); G11C 16/16 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G11C 16/24 (2006.01); G11C 16/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/16 (2013.01); G11C 16/08 (2013.01); G11C 16/24 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01);
Abstract
A semiconductor memory device, and a method of operating the semiconductor memory device, includes a memory cell array including a plurality of normal memory blocks and at least one system block, and a peripheral circuit configured to perform a program operation, a read operation, or an erase operation on the plurality of normal memory blocks or the at least one system block, wherein a data storage capacity of the at least one system block is less than a data storage capacity of each of the plurality of normal memory blocks.