Patents by Inventor No-Guen JOO

No-Guen JOO 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: 10998033
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes: a plurality of banks each including a plurality of cell mats and a plurality of sense amplifiers shared by adjacent cell mats; and a bank control circuit suitable for activating a normal word line of a particular cell mat of a bank selected according to a refresh command including bank information, and activating a target word line of a cell mat that does not share a sense amplifier with the particular cell mat according to a target refresh command after a preset delay time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Tae-Sik Yun, Dae-Suk Kim, Seok-Cheol Yoon, No-Guen Joo
  • Publication number: 20200185026
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes: a plurality of banks each including a plurality of cell mats and a plurality of sense amplifiers shared by adjacent cell mats; and a bank control circuit suitable for activating a normal word line of a particular cell mat of a bank selected according to a refresh command including bank information, and activating a target word line of a cell mat that does not share a sense amplifier with the particular cell mat according to a target refresh command after a preset delay time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Tae-Sik YUN, Dae-Suk KIM, Seok-Cheol YOON, No-Guen JOO
  • Patent number: 10049718
    Abstract: A memory device may include: at least one memory bank; and a control circuit suitable for: refreshing the at least one memory bank through a first refresh operation in response to a refresh command; and refreshing the at least one memory bank through a second refresh operation when an active operation is performed between a current refresh command and a previous refresh command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventor: No-Guen Joo
  • Publication number: 20180061485
    Abstract: A memory device may include: at least one memory bank; and a control circuit suitable for: refreshing the at least one memory bank through a first refresh operation in response to a refresh command; and refreshing the at least one memory bank through a second refresh operation when an active operation is performed between a current refresh command and a previous refresh command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventor: No-Guen JOO
  • Patent number: 9842640
    Abstract: A memory device may include: at least one memory bank; and a control circuit suitable for: refreshing the at least one memory bank through a first refresh operation in response to a refresh command; and refreshing the at least one memory bank through a second refresh operation when an active operation is performed between a current refresh command and a previous refresh command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventor: No-Guen Joo
  • Publication number: 20170140811
    Abstract: A memory device may include: at least one memory bank; and a control circuit suitable for: refreshing the at least one memory bank through a first refresh operation in response to a refresh command; and refreshing the at least one memory bank through a second refresh operation when an active operation is performed between a current refresh command and a previous refresh command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventor: No-Guen JOO
  • Patent number: 9627096
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device may include a memory bank having a plurality of word lines arranged at a predetermined address interval, an address latching unit suitable for storing a target address corresponding to a target word line of the plurality of word lines, and a refresh control unit suitable for performing a refresh operation on first to Nth word lines having different address intervals from the target word line based on the target address in response to a smart refresh command, wherein N is a natural number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: No-Guen Joo, Do-Hong Kim, Jae-Il Kim
  • Patent number: 9627027
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a 1st controller suitable for generating refresh control signals for controlling at least two types of refresh operations according to an external refresh signal; and a 2nd controller suitable for controlling the at least two types of refresh operations to be evenly and alternately performed on a plurality of word lines according to the refresh control signals, a predetermined number of times during a unit refresh period corresponding to the external refresh signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: No-Guen Joo, Jae-Il Kim
  • Patent number: 9548099
    Abstract: A memory device includes a counter suitable for counting the number of times that a periodic wave is enabled and generating a code, one or more memory banks each including a plurality of word lines, and one or more measurement blocks corresponding to the memory banks, respectively, and suitable for measuring an active period of an activated word line in a corresponding memory bank among the memory banks, wherein each of the measurement blocks measures the active period of the activated word line based on a first value of the code at an activation starting point of the corresponding memory bank and a current value of the code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: No-Guen Joo, Jae-Il Kim
  • Publication number: 20160293243
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device may include a memory bank having a plurality of word lines arranged at a predetermined address interval, an address latching unit suitable for storing a target address corresponding to a target word line of the plurality of word lines, and a refresh control unit suitable for performing a refresh operation on first to Nth word lines having different address intervals from the target word line based on the target address in response to a smart refresh command, wherein N is a natural number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: No-Guen JOO, Do-Hong KIM, Jae-Il KIM
  • Publication number: 20160111140
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a 1st controller suitable for generating refresh control signals for controlling two or more types of refresh operations according to an external refresh signal; and a 2nd controller suitable for controlling a plurality of word lines according to the refresh control signals such that the two or more types of refresh operations are alternately performed a predetermined number of times during a unit refresh period corresponding to the external refresh signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: No-Guen JOO, Jae-Il KIM
  • Publication number: 20150380073
    Abstract: A memory device includes a counter suitable for counting the number of times that a periodic wave is enabled and generating a code, one or more memory banks each including a plurality of word lines, and one or more measurement blocks corresponding to the memory banks, respectively, and suitable for measuring an active period of an activated word line in a corresponding memory bank among the memory banks, wherein each of the measurement blocks measures the active period of the activated word line based on a first value of the code at an activation starting point of the corresponding memory bank and a current value of the code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: No-Guen JOO, Jae-Il KIM