APPARATUS FOR READING DATA FROM MEMORY

• Main Author: IBI, TAKASHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 07.04.1993
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; PHYSICS; STATIC STORES

An apparatus for reading data from a memory in a computer system includes an address register (ADD-REG) for holding an address to be supplied to the memory; a read data register (RD-REG) for holding data read out from the memory; a device ( @) for generating a gated clock signal (GCLK) from a free-run clock signal (FCLK) having a predetermined constant period of time, where the gated clock signal is free-running with the constant period of time in a normal clock mode but is generated by a single pulse with an interval longer than the period of time of the free-run clock signal in a single clock mode; and a device (RDGC), having serially connected plural registers (SR1, SR2, SR3) for shifting a trigger signal (TRi) in accordance with the free-run clock signal (FCLK), for generating a read data clock signal (RCLK), where the trigger signal has a same timing synchronized with a specific phase of the gated clock signal at which a phase the address register is switched to hold a new address to be supplied to the memory, and the shifted trigger signal is fed to the read data register for holding the data read out from the memory. Such apparatus can shorten the read cycle time of the data, and thus can raise the throughput of the computer system.