Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Address generation for multiple access of memory
- Patent Title (中): 存储器多址访问的地址生成
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Application No.: US12217333Application Date: 2008-07-03
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Publication No.: US08090896B2Publication Date: 2012-01-03
- Inventor: Esko Nieminen
- Applicant: Esko Nieminen
- Applicant Address: FI Espoo
- Assignee: Nokia Corporation
- Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: FI Espoo
- Agency: Harrington & Smith
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00

Abstract:
A memory bank has a plurality of memories. In an embodiment, a forward unit applies logical memory addresses to the memory bank in a forward twofold access order, a backward unit applies logical memory addresses to the memory bank in a backward twofold access order, and a half butterfly network (at least half, and barrel shifters in 8-tuple embodiments) is disposed between the memory bank and the forward unit and the backward unit. A set of control signals is generated which are applied to the half or more butterfly network (and to the barrel shifters where present) so as to access the memory bank with an n-tuple parallelism in a linear order in a first instance, and a quadratic polynomial order in a second instance, where n=2, 4, 8, 16, 32, . . . . This access is for any n-tuple of the logical addresses, and is without memory access conflict. In this manner memory access may be controlled data decoding.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100005221A1 Address generation for multiple access of memory Public/Granted day:2010-01-07
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