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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2013
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Dae-Jeong Kim, Seoul, KR;
Kabyong Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Kwang-Woo Lee, Suwon-si, KR;
Heon Lee, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Inho Cho, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Abstract
A refresh leveraging driving method is provided which includes deciding a unit of word lines to be driven at a refresh leveraging operation to be the same as a redundancy repair row unit setting a lower row address of an input refresh leveraging address corresponding to the decided refresh leveraging row driving unit to a don't care state; and internally generating the don't care lower row address of the refresh leveraging address to drive word lines according to a combined refresh leveraging address.