Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Technologies for contemporaneous access of non-volatile and volatile memory in a memory device
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Application No.: US14975160Application Date: 2015-12-18
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Publication No.: US10296238B2Publication Date: 2019-05-21
- Inventor: Kunal A. Khochare , Camille C. Raad , Richard P. Mangold , Shachi K. Thakkar
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F12/02

Abstract:
Technologies for accessing memory devices of a memory module device includes receiving a memory read request form a host and reading, in response to the memory read request, a rank of active non-volatile memory devices of the memory module device while contemporaneously accessing a volatile memory device of the memory module device. The volatile memory device shares data lines of a data bus of the memory module device with a spare non-volatile memory device associated with the rank of active non-volatile memory devices. During write operations, each of the rank of active non-volatile memory devices and the spare non-volatile memory device associated with the rank of active non-volatile memory devices are written to facilitate proper wear leveling of the non-volatile memory devices. The spare non-volatile memory device may replace a failed non-volatile memory devices of the rank of active non-volatile memory devices. In such an event, the volatile memory device is no longer contemporaneously accessed during read operations of the rank of active non-volatile memory devices.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170177244A1 TECHNOLOGIES FOR CONTEMPORANEOUS ACCESS OF NON-VOLATILE AND VOLATILE MEMORY IN A MEMORY DEVICE Public/Granted day:2017-06-22
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