Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bandwidth-monitored frequency hopping within a selected DRAM operating point
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Application No.: US15634956Application Date: 2017-06-27
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Publication No.: US10296069B2Publication Date: 2019-05-21
- Inventor: Richard Stewart , Dexter Chun
- Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Smith Tempel Blaha LLC
- Main IPC: G06F1/32
- IPC: G06F1/32 ; G06F1/3234 ; G06F1/3237 ; G06F13/16 ; G06F13/40 ; G06F1/3296 ; G06F1/3225 ; G06F1/324

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for reducing dynamic random access memory (DRAM) power consumption within a selected voltage frequency/bin. One embodiment is a method comprising receiving a selected voltage/frequency bin for operating a memory bus electrically coupling a memory controller to a dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The method monitors a bandwidth of the memory bus while operating at the selected voltage/frequency bin. The method frequency switches a clock for the memory bus, based on the monitored bandwidth, between a plurality of predefined frequencies within the selected voltage/frequency bin to maintain a target bandwidth.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180373314A1 BANDWIDTH-MONITORED FREQUENCY HOPPING WITHIN A SELECTED DRAM OPERATING POINT Public/Granted day:2018-12-27
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