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Memory controller having data access hint message for specifying the given range of one or more memory addresses

US10402349B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Arm Limited · GB

Inventors

Michael Filippo · Driftwood, US
Jamshed Jalal · Austin, US
Klas Magnus Bruce · Leander, US
Paul Gilbert Meyer · Jericho, US
David Joseph Hawkins · Austin, US
Phanindra Kumar Mannava · Austin, US
Joseph Michael Pusdesris · Austin, US

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 8, 2017
Grant date	Sep 3, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 4, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2212/621
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A memory controller comprises memory access circuitry configured to initiate a data access of data stored in a memory in response to a data access hint message received from another node in data communication with the memory controller; to access data stored in the memory in response to a data access request received from another node in data communication with the memory controller and to provide the accessed data as a data access response to the data access request.

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