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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2014
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Yeon Joo Jeong, Chungcheongbuk-do, KR;
Suk Kwang Park, Chungcheongbuk-do, KR;
Soon Ok Seo, Seoul, KR;
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of memory blocks each including a plurality of memory cells, a circuit group performing a program operation, a read operation and an erase operation on a selected memory block, among the plurality of memory blocks, and a control circuit controlling the circuit group to program the memory cells of the selected memory block in a healing pattern. The healing pattern is programmed before a subsequent program operation is performed on the selected memory block. The memory cells of the healing pattern include erased memory cells and programmed memory cells arranged alternately.