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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Chul-soo Kim, Suwon, KR;
Ho-cheol Lee, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365201 ; 365200 ; 36523003 ;
Abstract
There is provided a semiconductor memory device which does not require an additional input pad to apply a signal for discriminating between a normal cell and a redundant cell. The semicodnuctor memory device has (claim 1). Therefore, the normal cell array or the redundant cell array is sequentially selected and tested by using the same input pad to which the bank select bit is input, without an additional pad.