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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2023
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Dong Uk Lee, Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Yun Cheol Kim, Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Hae Chang Yang, Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
There are provided a memory device and an operating method of the memory device. The memory device includes: a memory block including a plurality of sub-blocks; a peripheral circuit for performing first program and erase operations in a first manner in a first sub-block, among the plurality of sub-blocks, and performing second program and erase operations in a second manner in a second sub-block, among the plurality of sub-blocks; and a control circuit configured to, when a cycling number of the second program and erase operations that are performed in the second sub-block is equal to or greater than a reference number, control the peripheral circuit to perform a compensation operation that compensates for a threshold voltage of memory cells included in the first sub-block.