Semiconductor device and operating method thereof
AssigneeSK hynix Inc.
InventorsByoung Jun Park, Seong Jo Park, Kang Jae Lee
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor memory device and an operating method thereof. A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory blocks, a peripheral circuit: suitable for performing an erase operation and a program operation to the memory cell array, and a control logic suitable for controlling the peripheral circuit to erase all of the plurality of memory blocks and then to program the plurality of memory blocks with dummy data during the erase operation.
Claims7
A semiconductor memory device, the semiconductor memory device comprising:
- a memory cell array including a plurality of memory blocks;
- a peripheral circuit suitable for performing an erase operation and a program operation to the memory cell array;
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- a control logic suitable for controlling the peripheral circuit to erase all of the plurality of memory blocks and then to program the plurality of memory blocks with dummy data during the erase operation in response to an erase command corresponding to the erase operation of all of the plurality of memory blocks, and to erase the dummy data programmed into a selected memory block, among the plurality of memory blocks programmed with the dummy data, and program the selected memory block in response to a program command during the program operation after the erase operation.
A method of operating a semiconductor memory device, the method comprising:
- providing a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory blocks;
- erasing all of the plurality of memory blocks in response to an erase command for the erase operation of all of the plurality of memory blocks;
- programming all of the plurality of memory blocks with dummy data;
- perfoming a block erase operation on a selected memory block programmed with the dummy data among the plurality of memory blocks in response to a program command;
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- performing a program operation with the program data to the selected memory block.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.