Patents by Inventor Hoi Ju CHUNG

Hoi Ju CHUNG has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11928026
    Abstract: A method for operating a memory includes: reading data and an error correction code from a memory core; correcting an error of the read data based on the read error correction code to produce error-corrected data; generating new data by replacing a portion of the error-corrected data with write data, the portion becoming a write data portion; generating a new error correction code based on the new data; and writing the write data portion of the new data and the new error correction code into the memory core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Munseon Jang, Hoi Ju Chung, Jang Ryul Kim
  • Patent number: 11797215
    Abstract: A memory device includes an auto error check scrub (ECS) control circuit configured to generate an auto ECS command for performing an ECS operation based on a refresh control signal. The memory device also includes a burst ECS control circuit configured to generate an internal burst ECS command for performing the ECS operation every set period based on a burst ECS command and an ECS end flag. The memory device further includes an ECS address generation circuit configured to generate an ECS address for the ECS operation by counting an input of the auto ECS command or the internal burst ECS command and to generate the ECS end flag based on a value of the ECS address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Heeeun Choi, Hoi Ju Chung, Kwang Soon Kim, Ji Eun Kim
  • Publication number: 20230222033
    Abstract: A method for operating a memory includes: reading data and an error correction code from a memory core; correcting an error of the read data based on the read error correction code to produce error-corrected data; generating new data by replacing a portion of the error-corrected data with write data, the portion becoming a write data portion; generating a new error correction code based on the new data; and writing the write data portion of the new data and the new error correction code into the memory core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Munseon JANG, Hoi Ju CHUNG, Jang Ryul KIM
  • Patent number: 11698835
    Abstract: A method for operating a memory includes: reading data and an error correction code from a memory core; correcting an error of the read data based on the read error correction code to produce error-corrected data; generating new data by replacing a portion of the error-corrected data with write data, the portion becoming a write data portion; generating a new error correction code based on the new data; and writing the write data portion of the new data and the new error correction code into the memory core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Munseon Jang, Hoi Ju Chung, Jang Ryul Kim
  • Publication number: 20230185473
    Abstract: A memory device includes an auto error check scrub (ECS) control circuit configured to generate an auto ECS command for performing an ECS operation based on a refresh control signal. The memory device also includes a burst ECS control circuit configured to generate an internal burst ECS command for performing the ECS operation every set period based on a burst ECS command and an ECS end flag. The memory device further includes an ECS address generation circuit configured to generate an ECS address for the ECS operation by counting an input of the auto ECS command or the internal burst ECS command and to generate the ECS end flag based on a value of the ECS address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: HeeEun CHOI, Hoi Ju CHUNG, Kwang Soon KIM, Ji Eun KIM
  • Publication number: 20230185664
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction circuit, an error log register and a control logic circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory bank arrays and each of the memory bank arrays includes a plurality of pages. The control logic circuit is configured to control the error correction circuit to perform an ECC decoding sequentially on some of the pages designated at least one access address for detecting at least one bit error, in response to a first command received from a memory controller. The control logic circuit performs an error logging operation to write page error information into the error log register and the page error information includes a number of error occurrence on each of the some pages determined from the detecting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Hoi-Ju CHUNG, SANG-UHN CHA, HO-YOUNG SONG, HYUN-JOONG KIM
  • Patent number: 11593199
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction circuit, an error log register and a control logic circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory bank arrays and each of the memory bank arrays includes a plurality of pages. The control logic circuit is configured to control the error correction circuit to perform an ECC decoding sequentially on some of the pages designated at least one access address for detecting at least one bit error, in response to a first command received from a memory controller. The control logic circuit performs an error logging operation to write page error information into the error log register and the page error information includes a number of error occurrence on each of the some pages determined from the detecting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoi-Ju Chung, Sang-Uhn Cha, Ho-Young Song, Hyun-Joong Kim
  • Patent number: 11514998
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a core circuit configured to store write data and a write parity after outputting read data and a read parity in a data masking operation. The electronic device also includes an error correction circuit configured to correct an error included in the read data, based on the read parity; generate the write parity from the error-corrected read data, input data, and masking data; and generate the write data from the error-uncorrected read data, the input data, and the masking data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Dae Suk Kim, Hoi Ju Chung, Dong Kyun Kim, Jeong Jun Lee
  • Publication number: 20220262449
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a core circuit configured to store write data and a write parity after outputting read data and a read parity in a data masking operation. The electronic device also includes an error correction circuit configured to correct an error included in the read data, based on the read parity; generate the write parity from the error-corrected read data, input data, and masking data; and generate the write data from the error-uncorrected read data, the input data, and the masking data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Dae Suk KIM, Hoi Ju CHUNG, Dong Kyun KIM, Jeong Jun LEE
  • Publication number: 20220121518
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction circuit, an error log register and a control logic circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory bank arrays and each of the memory bank arrays includes a plurality of pages. The control logic circuit is configured to control the error correction circuit to perform an ECC decoding sequentially on some of the pages designated at least one access address for detecting at least one bit error, in response to a first command received from a memory controller. The control logic circuit performs an error logging operation to write page error information into the error log register and the page error information includes a number of error occurrence on each of the some pages determined from the detecting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Hoi-Ju Chung, Sang-Uhn Cha, Ho-Young Song, Hyun-Joong Kim
  • Patent number: 11239960
    Abstract: A method of operating a semiconductor memory device can include receiving data, from a memory controller, at an Error Correction Code (ECC) engine included in the semiconductor memory device, the data including at least one predetermined error. Predetermined parity can be received at the ECC engine, where the predetermined parity is configured to correspond to the data without the at least one predetermined error. A determination can be made whether a number of errors in the data is correctable by the ECC engine using the data including the at least one predetermined error and the predetermined parity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoi-ju Chung, Sang-Uhn Cha, Hyun-Joong Kim
  • Patent number: 11231996
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction circuit, an error log register and a control logic circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory bank arrays and each of the memory bank arrays includes a plurality of pages. The control logic circuit is configured to control the error correction circuit to perform an ECC decoding sequentially on some of the pages designated at least one access address for detecting at least one bit error, in response to a first command received from a memory controller. The control logic circuit performs an error logging operation to write page error information into the error log register and the page error information includes a number of error occurrence on each of the some pages determined from the detecting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoi-Ju Chung, Sang-Uhn Cha, Ho-Young Song, Hyun-Joong Kim
  • Publication number: 20210397515
    Abstract: A method for operating a memory includes: reading data and an error correction code from a memory core; correcting an error of the read data based on the read error correction code to produce error-corrected data; generating new data by replacing a portion of the error-corrected data with write data, the portion becoming a write data portion; generating a new error correction code based on the new data; and writing the write data portion of the new data and the new error correction code into the memory core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Munseon JANG, Hoi Ju CHUNG, Jang Ryul KIM
  • Publication number: 20210149764
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction circuit, an error log register and a control logic circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory bank arrays and each of the memory bank arrays includes a plurality of pages. The control logic circuit is configured to control the error correction circuit to perform an ECC decoding sequentially on some of the pages designated at least one access address for detecting at least one bit error, in response to a first command received from a memory controller. The control logic circuit performs an error logging operation to write page error information into the error log register and the page error information includes a number of error occurrence on each of the some pages determined from the detecting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: HOI-JU CHUNG, SANG-UHN CHA, HO-YOUNG SONG, HYUN-JOONG KIM
  • Patent number: 10929225
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction circuit, an error log register and a control logic circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory bank arrays and each of the memory bank arrays includes a plurality of pages. The control logic circuit is configured to control the error correction circuit to perform an ECC decoding sequentially on some of the pages designated at least one access address for detecting at least one bit error, in response to a first command received from a memory controller. The control logic circuit performs an error logging operation to write page error information into the error log register and the page error information includes a number of error occurrence on each of the some pages determined from the detecting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoi-Ju Chung, Sang-Uhn Cha, Ho-Young Song, Hyun-Joong Kim
  • Publication number: 20210044393
    Abstract: A method of operating a semiconductor memory device can include receiving data, from a memory controller, at an Error Correction Code (ECC) engine included in the semiconductor memory device, the data including at least one predetermined error. Predetermined parity can be received at the ECC engine, where the predetermined parity is configured to correspond to the data without the at least one predetermined error. A determination can be made whether a number of errors in the data is correctable by the ECC engine using the data including the at least one predetermined error and the predetermined parity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoi-ju CHUNG, Sang-Uhn CHA, Hyun-Joong KIM
  • Patent number: 10855412
    Abstract: A method of operating a semiconductor memory device can include receiving data, from a memory controller, at an Error Correction Code (ECC) engine included in the semiconductor memory device, the data including at least one predetermined error. Predetermined parity can be received at the ECC engine, where the predetermined parity is configured to correspond to the data without the at least one predetermined error. A determination can be made whether a number of errors in the data is correctable by the ECC engine using the data including the at least one predetermined error and the predetermined parity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoi-Ju Chung, Sang-Uhn Cha, Hyun-Joong Kim
  • Publication number: 20200301779
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction circuit, an error log register and a control logic circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory bank arrays and each of the memory bank arrays includes a plurality of pages. The control logic circuit is configured to control the error correction circuit to perform an ECC decoding sequentially on some of the pages designated at least one access address for detecting at least one bit error, in response to a first command received from a memory controller. The control logic circuit performs an error logging operation to write page error information into the error log register and the page error information includes a number of error occurrence on each of the some pages determined from the detecting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: HOI-JU CHUNG, SANG-UHN CHA, HO-YOUNG SONG, HYUN-JOONG KIM
  • Patent number: 10705908
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction circuit, an error log register and a control logic circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory bank arrays and each of the memory bank arrays includes a plurality of pages. The control logic circuit is configured to control the error correction circuit to perform an ECC decoding sequentially on some of the pages designated at least one access address for detecting at least one bit error, in response to a first command received from a memory controller. The control logic circuit performs an error logging operation to write page error information into the error log register and the page error information includes a number of error occurrence on each of the some pages determined from the detecting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoi-Ju Chung, Sang-Uhn Cha, Ho-Young Song, Hyun-Joong Kim
  • Patent number: 10684793
    Abstract: A memory controller includes a controller input/output circuit configured to output a first command to read first data, and output a second command to read an error corrected portion of the first data. A memory device includes: an error detector, a data storage circuit and an error correction circuit. The error detector is configured to detect a number of error bits in data read from a memory cell in response to a first command. The data storage circuit is configured to store the read data if the detected number of error bits is greater than or equal to a first threshold value. The error correction circuit is configured to correct the stored data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoi-ju Chung, Su-a Kim, Mu-jin Seo, Hak-soo Yu, Jae-youn Youn, Hyo-jin Choi