Applied Micro Circuits Assigned Patent
Scheduling memory banks based on memory access patterns
By Francis Pelletier | June 8, 2016 at 2:47 pmApplied Micro Circuits Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,336,164) developed by Svendsen, Kjeld, Sunnyvale, CA, for a “scheduling memory banks based on memory access patterns.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems and methods are provided that facilitate memory storage in a multi-bank memory device. The system contains a memory controller and a memory array communicatively coupled to the memory controller. The memory controller sends commands to the memory array and the memory array updates or retrieves data contained therein based upon the command. If the memory controller detects a pattern of memory requests, the memory controller can issue a preemptive activation request to the memory array. Accordingly, memory access overhead is reduced.“
The patent application was filed on October 4, 2012 (13/644,935).
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