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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2013
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SK Hynix, Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 7/20 (2006.01); G11C 5/14 (2006.01); G11C 29/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/20 (2013.01); G11C 5/143 (2013.01); G11C 2029/4402 (2013.01);
Abstract
An integrated circuit may include a first programmable storage cell group suitable for storing program validity information, second to N-th programmable storage cell groups suitable for storing a plurality of data, wherein N is an integer equal to or more than 3, and a validity determination unit suitable for determining whether the program validity information read from the first programmable storage cell group is valid or not so that read operations for the second to N-th programmable storage cell groups is performed or skipped based on the determined result.