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Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2011
Applicant:

Jeong-tae Hwang, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventor:

Jeong-Tae Hwang, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Assignee:

Hynix Semiconductor Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 (2006.01); G11C 8/12 (2006.01); G11C 8/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/12 (2013.01); G11C 8/06 (2013.01);
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.


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