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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2011
Applicants:
In-soon Kim, Seoul, KR;
Huikwon Seo, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Seijin Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array having multiple memory cells, a data input/output buffer for temporarily storing data to be stored in the memory cells, and a data scanner for scanning the data stored temporarily in the data input/output buffer. The nonvolatile memory device further includes control logic for reading address information of a memory cell in which at least a portion of the data is to be stored and selectively performing a data scan operation according to the read address information.