Invention Application
US20170024337A1 MEMORY HAVING INTERNAL PROCESSORS AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHODS IN MEMORY
审中-公开
具有内部处理器的内存和内存中的数据通信方法
- Patent Title: MEMORY HAVING INTERNAL PROCESSORS AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHODS IN MEMORY
- Patent Title (中): 具有内部处理器的内存和内存中的数据通信方法
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Application No.: US15288077Application Date: 2016-10-07
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Publication No.: US20170024337A1Publication Date: 2017-01-26
- Inventor: Robert M. Walker , Dan Skinner , Todd A. Merritt , J. Thomas Pawlowski
- Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Main IPC: G06F13/16
- IPC: G06F13/16 ; G06F13/40 ; G06F9/30 ; G06F3/06

Abstract:
Memory having internal processors, and methods of data communication within such a memory are provided. In one embodiment, an internal processor may concurrently access one or more banks on a memory array on a memory device via one or more buffers. The internal processor may be coupled to a buffer capable of accessing more than one bank, or coupled to more than one buffer that may each access a bank, such that data may be retrieved from and stored in different banks concurrently. Further, the memory device may be configured for communication between one or more internal processors through couplings between memory components, such as buffers coupled to each of the internal processors. Therefore, a multi-operation instruction may be performed by different internal processors, and data (such as intermediate results) from one internal processor may be transferred to another internal processor of the memory, enabling parallel execution of an instruction(s).
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