Multiple bank structured memory access device having flexible setting of a pipeline stage number
US5768559A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 22, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jun 16, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 22, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F12/0607
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A memory access device including a memory unit having a plurality of independently accessible banks and a pipeline stage number setting unit for setting the number of the pipeline stages in a pipeline operation for accessing the next-to-be-accessed one of the plurality of independently accessible banks before completing an access to a currently accessed one of the plurality of independently accessible banks. The number of banks accessed is not more than the number of the plurality of banks. A unit is provided for generating an address of the next-to-be-accessed one of the plurality of independently accessible banks and for switching a bank from the currently used one of the plurality of independently accessible banks to the next-to-be-accessed one of the plurality of independently accessible banks in accordance with the number of the pipeline stages set by the pipeline stage number setting unit.
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