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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2004
Applicant:
Byoung-sul Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Inventor:
Byoung-Sul Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A redundancy circuit for use with a semiconductor memory device is provided. The redundancy circuit includes input address buffers for storing input address bits; fuse boxes for storing repair address bits; a comparator for comparing the input address bits stored in the input address buffers with the repair address bits stored in the fuse boxes; and a redundancy enable determiner for determining whether a redundant memory cell is to be applied to the memory device according to a comparison result of the comparator.