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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:
Scott J. Derner, Meridian, ID (US);
Casey R. Kurth, Boise, ID (US);
Daryl L. Habersetzer, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 ;
Abstract
A memory device includes an address selection circuit to store addresses of selected rows of memory cells. During a refresh mode, only the memory cells of the selected rows are refreshed. The addresses of the selected rows can be stored automatically by the memory device during a memory operation mode or manually by a user during a programming mode.