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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2013
Applicant:
Ki-tae Park, Seongnam-si, KR;
Inventor:
Ki-Tae Park, Seongnam-si, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/02 (2006.01); G11C 8/12 (2006.01); G11C 5/14 (2006.01); G11C 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/12 (2013.01); G11C 5/02 (2013.01); G11C 5/025 (2013.01); G11C 5/143 (2013.01); G11C 7/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory chips each including a chip identification (ID) generation circuit. The chip ID generation circuits of the respective memory chips are operatively connected together in a cascade configuration, and the chip ID generation circuits are activated in response to application of a power supply voltage the memory device to sequentially generate respective chip ID numbers of the plurality of device chips