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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2016
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventor:
Kwi Dong Kim, Icheon-si, KR;
Assignee:
SK HYNIX INC., Icheon-Si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/4063 (2006.01); G11C 11/406 (2006.01); G11C 11/4091 (2006.01); G11C 11/408 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/40618 (2013.01); G11C 11/4085 (2013.01); G11C 11/4087 (2013.01); G11C 11/4091 (2013.01); G11C 11/40603 (2013.01);
Abstract
A semiconductor apparatus includes a plurality of unit memory blocks and a plurality of sense amplifier arrays configured to be shared with two or more unit memory blocks among the plurality of unit memory blocks, and amplify data of the unit memory blocks. When a unit memory block corresponding to an external address and a unit memory block corresponding to a refresh address among the plurality of unit memory blocks are coupled in common to one of the plurality of sense simplifier arrays, the semiconductor apparatus stores the refresh address and executes a normal operation command corresponding to the external address.