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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2014
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/08 (2006.01); G11C 11/408 (2006.01); G11C 11/406 (2006.01); G11C 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/4087 (2013.01); G11C 8/08 (2013.01); G11C 11/40611 (2013.01); G11C 29/783 (2013.01);
Abstract
A memory may include a plurality of word lines, one or more redundancy word lines for replacing one or more word lines among the plurality of word lines, a target address generation unit suitable for generating one or more target addresses using a stored address, and a control unit suitable for sequentially refreshing the plurality of word lines in response to a refresh command which is periodically inputted, refreshing a word line selected based on the target address when the refresh command is inputted M times, and refreshing the one or more redundancy word lines whenever the refresh command is inputted N times, wherein the M and N are natural numbers.