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公开(公告)号:US11604693B2
公开(公告)日:2023-03-14
申请号:US17388243
申请日:2021-07-29
Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Inventor: Yesin Ryu , Sunggi Ahn , Jaeyoun Youn
IPC: G06F11/10
Abstract: A memory device including: a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells disposed at intersections of wordlines and bitlines; an error correction circuit configured to read data from the memory cell array and to correct an error in the read data; and an error check and scrub (ECS) circuit configured to perform a scrubbing operation on the memory cell array, wherein the ECS circuit includes: a first register configured to store an error address obtained in the scrubbing operation; and a second register configured to store a page offline address received from an external device.
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公开(公告)号:US11791014B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-17
申请号:US18053498
申请日:2022-11-08
Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Yesin Ryu , Yoonna Oh , Hyunki Kim
CPC classification number: G11C29/88 , G06F11/2094 , G06F12/10 , G11C17/16 , G11C17/18 , G06F2201/82
Abstract: A memory device includes a row decoder, a column decoder, and a repair control circuit, which is configured to: (i) compare a row address with a stored failed row address, (ii) compare a column address with a stored failed column address, (iii) control the row decoder to activate the at least one of a plurality of redundancy word lines when the row address corresponds to the failed row address, and (iv) control the column decoder to activate at least one of a plurality of redundancy bit lines when the column address corresponds to the failed column address. The repair control circuit varies a repair unit according to an address input during a repair operation.
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公开(公告)号:US11681458B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-20
申请号:US17090726
申请日:2020-11-05
Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Inventor: Sunghye Cho , Kijun Lee , Sung-Rae Kim , Chanki Kim , Yeonggeol Song , Yesin Ryu , Jaeyoun Youn , Myungkyu Lee
CPC classification number: G06F3/0655 , G06F3/0619 , G06F3/0673 , G06F11/1048 , G11C29/52
Abstract: A method for reading data from a memory includes; reading a codeword from the memory cells, correcting the errors when a number of errors in the codeword is less than a maximum number of correctable errors, correcting the errors when the number of errors in the codeword is equal to the maximum number of correctable errors and the errors correspond to a same sub-word line, and outputting signal indicating that the errors are an uncorrectable error when the number of errors of the codeword is equal to the maximum number of correctable errors and the errors correspond to different sub-word lines.
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公开(公告)号:US20230069753A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-02
申请号:US18053498
申请日:2022-11-08
Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Yesin Ryu , Yoonna Oh , Hyunki Kim
Abstract: A memory device includes a row decoder, a column decoder, and a repair control circuit, which is configured to: (i) compare a row address with a stored failed row address, (ii) compare a column address with a stored failed column address, (iii) control the row decoder to activate the at least one of a plurality of redundancy word lines when the row address corresponds to the failed row address, and (iv) control the column decoder to activate at least one of a plurality of redundancy bit lines when the column address corresponds to the failed column address. The repair control circuit varies a repair unit according to an address input during a repair operation.
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公开(公告)号:US11487615B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-01
申请号:US17205276
申请日:2021-03-18
Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Kiheung Kim , Hyungi Kim , Junhyung Kim , Sungchul Park , Yesin Ryu
IPC: G06F11/10 , G11C11/4096 , G11C11/406 , G11C11/408 , H01L25/065
Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction code (ECC) engine, a scrubbing control circuit and a control logic circuit. The memory cell array includes memory cell rows, and each of the memory cell rows including volatile memory cells. The scrubbing control circuit generates scrubbing addresses for performing a normal scrubbing operation on the memory cell rows with a first period based on refresh row addresses for refreshing the memory cell rows. The control logic circuit controls the ECC engine the scrubbing control circuit to distribute a scrubbing operation on weak codewords dynamically within the refresh operation such that a dynamic allocated scrubbing (DAS) operation is performed with a second period smaller than the first period. An error bit is detected in each of the weak codewords during the normal scrubbing operation or normal read operation on at least one of the memory cell rows.
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公开(公告)号:US11366716B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-21
申请号:US17088900
申请日:2020-11-04
Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Inventor: Yesin Ryu , Namsung Kim , Sanguhn Cha , Jaeyoun Youn , Kijun Lee
IPC: G06F11/10 , H01L25/065
Abstract: A semiconductor memory device including: a buffer die; memory dies stacked on the buffer die; and TSVs, at least one of the memory dies includes: a memory cell array; an error correction code (ECC) engine; an error information register; and a control logic circuit configured to control the ECC engine to perform a read-modify-write operation, wherein the control logic circuit is configured to: record, in the error information register, a first address associated with a first codeword based on the an generation signal and a first syndrome obtained by an ECC decoding; and determine an error attribute of the first codeword based on a change of the first syndrome, recorded in the error information register, based on a plurality of read-modify-write operations.
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公开(公告)号:US11170868B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-09
申请号:US16864787
申请日:2020-05-01
Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Inventor: Yesin Ryu , Sanguhn Cha , Sunghye Cho , Kijun Lee , Myungkyu Lee , Youngcheon Kwon , Jaeyoun Youn
Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array and an interface circuit including an error correction code (ECC) engine. The memory cell array includes a plurality of volatile memory cells, a normal cell region and a parity cell region. The interface circuit, in a write operation, receives main data and first parity data from an external device, the first parity data being generated based on a first ECC and stores the main data in the normal cell region and the first parity data in the parity cell region. The interface circuit, in a read operation, performs an ECC decoding on the main data using a second ECC, based on the first parity data to correct a first type of error in the main data. The second ECC has a parity check matrix which is the same as a parity check matrix of the first ECC.
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公开(公告)号:US20210124659A1
公开(公告)日:2021-04-29
申请号:US16890559
申请日:2020-06-02
Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Yesin Ryu , Yoonna Oh , Hyunki Kim
Abstract: A memory device includes a row decoder, a column decoder, and a repair control circuit, which is configured to: (i) compare a row address with a stored failed row address, (ii) compare a column address with a stored failed column address, (iii) control the row decoder to activate the at least one of a plurality of redundancy word lines when the row address corresponds to the failed row address, and (iv) control the column decoder to activate at least one of a plurality of redundancy bit lines when the column address corresponds to the failed column address. The repair control circuit varies a repair unit according to an address input during a repair operation.
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公开(公告)号:US11841763B2
公开(公告)日:2023-12-12
申请号:US17535762
申请日:2021-11-26
Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Inventor: Yeonggeol Song , Sungrae Kim , Kijun Lee , Sunggi Ahn , Yesin Ryu , Sukhan Lee
IPC: G06F11/277 , G06F11/10 , G11C29/04
CPC classification number: G06F11/1044 , G11C29/04 , G06F11/277
Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a buffer die and a plurality of memory dies. Each of the memory dies includes a memory cell array, an error correction code (ECC) engine and a test circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cell rows, each including a plurality of volatile memory cells. The test circuit, in a test mode, generates a test syndrome and an expected decoding status flag indicating error status of the test syndrome, receives test parity data generated by the ECC engine based on the test syndrome and a decoding status flag indicating error status of the test parity data, and determines whether the ECC engine has a defect based on comparison of the test syndrome and the test parity data and a comparison of the expected decoding status flag and the decoding status flag.
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公开(公告)号:US11551775B2
公开(公告)日:2023-01-10
申请号:US17313236
申请日:2021-05-06
Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Inventor: Sunggi Ahn , Yesin Ryu , Jun Jin Kong , Eunae Lee , Jihyun Choi
Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction code (ECC) circuit and a control logic circuit to control the ECC circuit. The memory cell array includes memory cells and a normal cell region and a parity cell region The ECC circuit, in a normal mode, receives a main data, performs an ECC encoding on the main data to generate a parity data and stores the main data and the parity data in the normal cell region and the parity cell region. The ECC circuit, in a test mode, receives a test data including at least one error bit, stores the test data in one of the normal cell region and the parity cell region and performs an ECC decoding on the test data and one of the main data and the parity data to provide a decoding result data to an external device.
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