US 7,486,575 B2
Semiconductor memories with block-dedicated programmable latency register
Chul Woo Park, Yongin-si (Korea, Republic of)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Suwon-si (Korea, Republic of)
Filed on Apr. 20, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/407,024.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2005-0065437 (KR), filed on Jul. 19, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0019481 A1, Jan. 25, 2007
Int. Cl. G11C 7/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 365—193  [365/194; 365/230.08] 39 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor memory device, comprising:
at least one memory bank having a plurality of memory blocks to store data, the data stored in the memory blocks capable of being read in response to a read command;
a control unit to generate a plurality of CL values and to dedicate the CL values to predetermined ones of the memory blocks to be read; and
an output circuit to output the data in response to a read signal activated by the read command, wherein the output circuit outputs the data from each of the memory blocks based on the dedicated CL values.