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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2015
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Samsung-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A use time managing method of a semiconductor device may include (1) measuring an amount of accumulated operation time of the semiconductor device and when the amount is reached to a predetermined value, generating a unit storage activation signal; (2) repeating step (1) to generate one or more additional unit storage activation signals, thereby generating a plurality of unit storage activation signals, wherein the predetermined values are different for each repeating step; (3) storing data indicating each occurrence of generating the unit storage activation signals; and (4) detecting use time of the semiconductor device based on the cumulatively stored data.