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Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 11, 2022
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Sungyong Cho, Anyang-si, KR;

Hyeran Kim, Uiwang-si, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/406 (2006.01); G11C 11/408 (2006.01); H01L 25/065 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/40611 (2013.01); G11C 11/40615 (2013.01); G11C 11/4087 (2013.01); H01L 25/0657 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory controller to control a semiconductor memory device, includes a row hammer management circuit and a scheduler. The row hammer management circuit counts each of access addresses associated with accesses to a plurality of memory cell rows of the semiconductor memory device to store counting values therein and determines a hammer address associated with at least one memory cell row which is intensively accessed among from the plurality of memory cell rows and a type of the hammer address associated with an urgency of management of the hammer address based on the counting values. The scheduler transmits the hammer address to the semiconductor memory device according to a different command protocol based on the type of the hammer address.


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