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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 01, 2015
Applicant:

SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventor:

Hyeng Ouk Lee, Yongin-si, KR;

Assignee:

SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 (2006.01); G11C 11/406 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/40615 (2013.01);
Abstract

A self-refresh device is disclosed, which relates to a technology for generating a self-refresh period by reflecting refresh characteristics of an actual cell in a semiconductor device. The self-refresh device includes: a period generation unit configured to output a period control signal by comparing an output voltage of a dummy cell with a reference signal; a phase detection unit configured to detect a phase of the period control signal in response to an oscillation signal having a fixed period; and a refresh signal output unit configured to output a self-refresh period signal in response to the oscillation signal and an output signal of the phase detection unit.


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