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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2008
Applicant:
Hi-choon Lee, Yongin-si, KR;
Inventor:
Hi-Choon Lee, Yongin-si, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 (2006.01); G11C 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A test circuit and method for use in a semiconductor memory device is provided. The test method for use in a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory blocks may include sequentially enabling a plurality of word lines by applying a stress to the wordlines and performing a test operation, in response to sequentially applied test addresses, each of the word lines being sequentially selected from the plurality of memory blocks and enabled.