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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2012
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventor:
Choung-Ki Song, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Assignee:
SK Hyinx Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 (2006.01); G11C 8/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A memory device includes a plurality of banks, a plurality of address buffers configured to receive addresses, and a buffer control unit configured to deactivate one or more of the plurality of address buffers when the number of activated banks among the plurality of banks is a prescribed number.