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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2022
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Jong Woo Kim, Icheon-si, KR;
Young Cheol Shin, Icheon-si, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Abstract
Provided herein is a memory device and a method of operating the memory device. The memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, a peripheral circuit configured to perform a program operation for storing data in selected memory cells among the plurality of memory cells, and a control logic circuit configured to control the peripheral circuit to form threshold voltage distributions corresponding to target program states corresponding to the data to be stored in the selected memory cells, respectively, wherein the control logic controls the peripheral circuit to perform a main verify operation for any one of the target program states of the selected memory cells when a pre-verify operation for the any one of the target program states has passed.