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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2015
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Yu-Ri Lim, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Jung-Hoon Park, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Assignee:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/406 (2006.01); G11C 11/408 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/406 (2013.01); G11C 11/408 (2013.01); G11C 11/4085 (2013.01);
Abstract
A semiconductor memory device includes: a plurality of memory areas; a target area setting unit suitable for designating a target area according to a number of accesses to the respective memory areas; a random address generation unit suitable for generating a random address within the respective memory areas in a random manner; a target address generation unit suitable for generating a target address based on the target area and the random address; and a driving unit suitable for performing a smart refresh operation according to the target address.