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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2023
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Hyungjin Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Seunghyun Cho, Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A memory device includes a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells therein that span a plurality of rows, which are grouped into segments, and a plurality of columns, which are grouped into ticks. The ticks include normal ticks, and a spare tick that spans at least one redundancy column of memory cells in the memory cell array. A repair circuit is provided, which is configured to: (i) repair a first source address of a first failed column, which spans a plurality of the segments, with a first destination address of a pass column in one of the normal ticks, and then (ii) further repair the first destination address of the pass column with a first redundancy column within the spare tick that corresponds to the first destination address.