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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2011
Jeong-tae Hwang, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Jeong-Tae Hwang, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Hynix Semiconductor Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A bank selection circuit includes a command latch unit configured to latch an input command at a time earlier than a rising edge of a clock by a setup time, a command decoder configured to decode a latched command and generate a row operation signal, a bank address latch unit configured to latch an input bank address at a time earlier than the rising edge of the clock by the setup time, a bank address decoder configured to decode a latched bank address and generate a bank selection signal, and a bank selection unit configured to receive the row operation signal and the bank selection signal and transfer the row operation signal to a bank selected by the bank selection signal.