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Redundancy circuit of semiconductor memory device

US6639854B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 18, 2001
Grant dateOct 28, 2003
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Expiry dateJan 24, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C2029/1802
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A semiconductor memory device having a redundancy circuit, includes a normal memory cell array unit, a redundancy memory cell array unit for recovering defective cells of the normal memory cell array unit, and a memory driving unit for operating the normal memory cell adjacent to the redundancy memory cell array unit immediately after a word line move time ‘tcycle’ is elasped by using address data.

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