Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Buffer control of multiple memory banks
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Application No.: US17345911Application Date: 2021-06-11
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Publication No.: US11437081B2Publication Date: 2022-09-06
- Inventor: Shih-Lien Linus Lu
- Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
- Current Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Main IPC: G11C7/22
- IPC: G11C7/22 ; G11C7/10

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are related to operating a memory system including memory banks and buffers. Each buffer may perform a write process to write data to a corresponding memory bank. In one aspect, the memory system includes a buffer controller including a queue register, a first pointer register, a second pointer register, and a queue controller. In one aspect, the queue register includes entries, where each entry may store an address of a corresponding memory bank. The first pointer register may indicate a first entry storing an address of a memory bank, on which the write process is predicted to be completed next. The second pointer register may indicate a second entry to be updated. The queue controller may configure the queue register according to the first pointer register and the second pointer register, and configure one or more buffers to perform the write process, according to the entries.
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