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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 02, 1999
Dong-Woo Lee, Seoul, KR;
Heung-Soo Im, Suwon, KR;
Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device which comprises a mode register for storing the data for controlling plural operating modes, for instance, the RAS and the CAS latency, the burst length, and the burst type, of the memory device. The mode register of the present invention comprises a plurality of programmable elements, and a default value of the mode register is set depending on whether or the programmable elements are programmed. Furthermore, each of the programmable elements is comprised of the same element as the memory cells of the memory device. With the present invention, various default values for the mode register are set in accordance with the user's requirement without an additional process step.