Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Time-multiplexed communication protocol for transmitting a command and address between a memory controller and multi-port memory
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Application No.: US13463720Application Date: 2012-05-03
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Publication No.: US09646656B2Publication Date: 2017-05-09
- Inventor: Alok Gupta
- Applicant: Alok Gupta
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
- Current Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Artegis Law Group, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F12/02
- IPC: G06F12/02 ; G11C5/06 ; G11C7/10 ; G11C7/22

Abstract:
One embodiment sets forth a technique for time-multiplexed communication for transmitting command and address information between a controller and a multi-port memory device over a single connection. Command and address information for each port of the multi-port memory device is time-multiplexed within the controller to produce a single stream of commands and addresses for different memory requests. The single stream of commands and addresses is transmitted by the controller to the multi-port memory device where the single stream is demultiplexed to generate separate streams of commands and addresses for each port of the multi-port memory device.
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