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Multiple bank memory with auto refresh to specified bank

US5627791A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 16, 1996
Grant dateMay 6, 1997
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Expiry dateFeb 16, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C11/406
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A synchronous random access memory, such as a synchronous dynamic random access memory or a synchronous graphic random access memory, is responsive to command signals and includes multiple bank memory arrays. A command decoder/controller responds to command signals to initiate, in a first system clock cycle, an auto-refresh command controlling an auto refresh operation to a specified one of the multiple bank memory arrays.

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