US 12,456,506 B2
Memory controller, memory system and operation of row-hammer tracking
Young Ook Song, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Aug. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/453,323.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2023-0047253 (KR), filed on Apr. 11, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0347097 A1, Oct. 17, 2024
Int. Cl. G11C 11/40 (2006.01); G11C 11/406 (2006.01); G11C 11/4078 (2006.01)
CPC G11C 11/40618 (2013.01) [G11C 11/40615 (2013.01); G11C 11/4078 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A memory system, comprising:
a memory device including banks each including a plurality of rows, and configured to select, within a selected bank of the banks, at least one row from the plurality of rows based on a target address; and
a row-hammer tracking module configured to:
select the selected bank based on a pattern of accesses to each of the banks, wherein the pattern is a difference between a read/write number and an active number of each of the banks, and the selected bank has a lesser number than a reference number in the difference, and
select the target address according to an access number for each of a plurality of groups of the rows within the selected bank.