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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2023
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Inventor:
Jae Woong Kim, Icheon-si, KR;
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/24 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/3459 (2013.01); G11C 16/102 (2013.01); G11C 16/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided herein is a memory device and a method of operating the memory device. The memory device includes memory cells, a peripheral circuit configured to perform an intermediate program operation and a final program operation on the memory cells, and a program operation controller configured to control the peripheral circuit to perform an extra program operation, after the final program operation is performed, on under programmed cells having threshold voltages, lower than an extra verify voltage lower than a main verify voltage used in the final program operation among the memory cells.