Quasi-volatile system-level memory
US11580038B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 5, 2021 |
| Grant date | Feb 14, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 26, 2041 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01L2225/06541
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A high-capacity system memory may be built from both quasi-volatile (QV) memory circuits, logic circuits, and static random-access memory (SRAM) circuits. Using the SRAM circuits as buffers or cache for the QV memory circuits, the system memory may achieve access latency performance of the SRAM circuits and may be used as code memory. The system memory is also capable of direct memory access (DMA) operations and includes an arithmetic logic unit for performing computational memory tasks. The system memory may include one or more embedded processor. In addition, the system memory may be configured for multi-channel memory accesses by multiple host processors over multiple host ports. The system memory may be provided in the dual-in-line memory module (DIMM) format.
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