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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2012
Applicant:
Hiromitsu Komai, Kamakura, JP;
Inventor:
Hiromitsu Komai, Kamakura, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes units each including memory cells, a data bus connected to each of the units and having data lines, holding circuits configured to hold fail information supplied from the unit through the data bus as a verify result after writing data, and provided in association with the data lines, respectively, daisy chain circuits configured to shift a flag includes a logical sum of the fail information held in the holding circuits, and provided in association with the data lines, respectively, and a search circuit configured to search for fail bits in the units based on the flag.