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Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 17, 2021
Applicant:

Changxin Memory Technologies, Inc., Anhui, CN;

Inventor:

Liang Zhang, Hefei, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01); G11C 29/38 (2006.01); G11C 29/44 (2006.01); H03K 19/20 (2006.01); G11C 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/76 (2013.01); G11C 29/38 (2013.01); G11C 29/4401 (2013.01); H03K 19/20 (2013.01); G11C 2029/1202 (2013.01);
Abstract

The repair circuit is disposed in a memory including a normal memory area and a redundant memory area including a target repair unit immediately adjacent to the normal memory area, and the repair circuit being configured to control the target repair unit to repair an abnormal memory cell in the normal memory area. The repair circuit includes: a first control circuit, configured to receive signals at a target number of bits from low to high in a row address, process the received signals to obtain a control result, and output the control result, where the target number is associated with a number of Word Lines in the target repair unit; and a repair determination circuitry, connected to an output terminal of the first control circuit, and configured to receive the control result and output, in combination with the control result, a repair signal indicating whether to perform a repair operation.


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