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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2014
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventor:
Joon-Woo Kim, Icheon-si, KR;
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/12 (2006.01); G11C 7/02 (2006.01); G11C 8/10 (2006.01); G11C 11/406 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/02 (2013.01); G11C 8/10 (2013.01); G11C 11/40603 (2013.01); G11C 11/40611 (2013.01);
Abstract
A semiconductor device may include a storage unit configured to store a number of times a first command has been provided to a memory cell array, a control unit configured to generate a second command operable to activate at least one word line in the memory cell array based on a comparison of the number stored at the storage unit with a threshold value, when the first command is received, and a selection unit configured to select one of the first command and the second command based on a result of the comparison and transmit the selected command to the memory cell array.