US Patent 7706198 Multi-chip and repairing method based on remaining redundancy cells

There is provided a repair method of a multi-chip that comprises a plurality of memory chips, each of the memory chips storing information with respect to remaining redundancy cells after repairing at a chip level. The repair method includes testing one of the plurality of memory chips; when the tested memory chip is judged to be defective, checking whether the tested memory chip is repairable, based on the stored information of the remaining redundancy cells; and when the tested memory chip is judged to be repairable, repairing the tested memory chip.