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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1999
Ho Youb Cho, Seoul, KR;
Jin Keun Oh, Ichon-shi, KR;
Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd., Ichon-shi, KR;
Abstract
A self-refresh apparatus for a semiconductor memory device is disclosed. According to the self-refresh apparatus, Data loss can be prevented by monitoring a leakage of memory cell data, activating a variable self-refresh signal in accordance with a signal resulted from the monitoring during a self-refresh mode, producing a refresh request signal when the self-refresh signal is activated and then refreshing all of memory cells. An unnecessary power consumption can be also prevented by variably performing the refresh operation in accordance with the retention time of cell data.
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