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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2020
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Minari Arai, Niiza, JP;
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
Apparatuses and methods for refreshing memory of a semiconductor device are described. An example method includes during a refresh operation, determining a respective row of a memory cells slated for refresh in each of a plurality of sections of a memory bank of a memory device, and determining whether the respective row of memory cells slated for refresh for a particular section of the plurality of sections of the memory bank has been repaired. The example method further includes in response to a determination that the row of memory cells slated for refresh has been repaired, cause a refresh within the particular section of the memory bank to be skipped while contemporaneously performing a refresh of the rows of memory cells slated for refresh in other sections of the plurality of sections of the memory bank to be refreshed.