Multi-bank memory access method and apparatus
US6587936B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 21, 2001 |
| Grant date | Jul 1, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 14, 2021 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG11C7/22
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Data is stored in a memory in a manner which eliminates dead time which occurs when the number of words in a page which are read-out are insufficient to provide enough time for simultaneously opening the next page. If the length of a frame being stored in memory is not an exact integral multiple of words in a page, a penultimate (or earlier) page is written with fewer words than the page can hold. This allows additional words to be placed into the last page, sufficient to provide every page used for storing a frame at least a number of words equal to the number of clock cycles needed for opening a next page.
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