HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF LARGE MEMORY BLOCKS

A multi-bank memory system includes one or more levels of logical memory hierarchy to increase the available random cyclic transaction rate of the memory system. The memory system includes a plurality of multi-bank partitions, each having a corresponding partition interface. Each partition interface...

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Main Author ROY, RICHARD
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 18.11.2015
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
INFORMATION STORAGE
PHYSICS
STATIC STORES
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Summary:A multi-bank memory system includes one or more levels of logical memory hierarchy to increase the available random cyclic transaction rate of the memory system. The memory system includes a plurality of multi-bank partitions, each having a corresponding partition interface. Each partition interface accesses the corresponding multi-bank partition at a first frequency. A global interface may access the partition interfaces at a second frequency, which is equal to the first frequency times the number of partition interfaces. Alternately, a plurality of cluster interfaces may access corresponding groups of the partition interfaces, wherein each cluster interface accesses the corresponding group of partition interfaces at a second frequency that is faster than the first frequency. A global interface accesses the cluster interfaces at a third frequency that is greater than the second frequency.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20110737561