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Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026

Filed:

May. 11, 2023
Applicant:

SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventor:

Chul Moon Jung, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Assignee:

SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/79 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 21/79 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory device includes a refresh latch configured to generate a first aggressive address by latching an address input with a refresh management command; a detection circuit configured to sequentially store the first aggressive address as a plurality of first candidate addresses, and generate a detection signal according to a number of duplicated addresses among the plurality of the first candidate addresses; an address sampling circuit configured to generate a second aggressive address by collecting information on rows subjected to a row-hammer attack; and an output control circuit configured to output, as a target address, the first aggressive address or the second aggressive address according to the refresh management command and the detection signal.


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