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公开(公告)号:US20240080016A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-07
申请号:US18236857
申请日:2023-08-22
申请人: Rambus Inc.
发明人: Cosmin IORGA , Ruibing ZHANG
IPC分类号: H03H11/04
CPC分类号: H03H11/04
摘要: A pulse filter circuit is configured to eliminate pulses that are less than a specified duration and pass those that are greater than the specified duration. A buffer receives a signal and applies the buffered signal to a resistance-capacitance charging-discharging circuit (e.g., RC filter). When the output of the RC filter has, in response to the buffered signal, charged or discharged, as appropriate, to cause the output of a slicer to change, logic circuitry controls switching circuitry to pull the output of the RC filter to be fully charged or discharged, respectively. In this manner, pulses that are too short to charge/discharge the RC filter enough to cross the threshold of the slicer do not reach the slicer circuit output, but pulses that are long enough to cross the slicer threshold are transmitted by the slicer.
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公开(公告)号:US20240079079A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-07
申请号:US18233257
申请日:2023-08-11
申请人: Rambus Inc.
CPC分类号: G11C29/4401 , G11C5/04 , G11C11/401 , G11C29/022 , G11C29/52 , G11C29/76 , G11C29/783 , G11C29/88 , G11C2029/4402
摘要: A buffer circuit is disclosed. The buffer circuit includes a command address (C/A) interface to receive an incoming activate (ACT) command and an incoming column address strobe (CAS) command. A first match circuit includes first storage to store failure row address information associated with the memory, and first compare logic. The first compare logic is responsive to the ACT command, to compare incoming row address information to the stored failure row address information. A second match circuit includes second storage to store failure column address information associated with the memory, and second compare logic. The second compare logic is responsive to the CAS command, to compare the incoming column address information to the stored failure column address information. Gating logic maintains a state of a matching row address identified by the first compare logic during the comparison carried out by the second compare logic.
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公开(公告)号:US11921650B2
公开(公告)日:2024-03-05
申请号:US18117119
申请日:2023-03-03
申请人: Rambus Inc.
发明人: Liji Gopalakrishnan
IPC分类号: G06F13/16 , G11C11/4093 , G11C11/4096
CPC分类号: G06F13/1668 , G11C11/4093 , G11C11/4096
摘要: A memory system includes a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) device, a second memory device, and a memory controller circuit. The memory controller circuit is coupled to the DRAM device by a first data channel configured to transfer first data between the memory controller circuit and the DRAM device on behalf of a host, and is also coupled to the DRAM device by a second data channel configured to transfer second data between the memory controller circuit and the DRAM device on behalf of the second memory device while the first data is being transferred across the first data bus.
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公开(公告)号:US11921642B2
公开(公告)日:2024-03-05
申请号:US17986781
申请日:2022-11-14
申请人: Rambus Inc.
发明人: Trung Diep , Hongzhong Zheng
IPC分类号: G06F12/1009 , G06F12/0811 , G06F12/0864 , G11C7/10
CPC分类号: G06F12/1009 , G06F12/0811 , G06F12/0864 , G11C7/1072 , G06F2212/283 , G06F2212/656
摘要: A cache memory includes cache lines to store information. The stored information is associated with physical addresses that include first, second, and third distinct portions. The cache lines are indexed by the second portions of respective physical addresses associated with the stored information. The cache memory also includes one or more tables, each of which includes respective table entries that are indexed by the first portions of the respective physical addresses. The respective table entries in each of the one or more tables are to store indications of the second portions of respective physical addresses associated with the stored information.
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公开(公告)号:US11914508B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-27
申请号:US17065082
申请日:2020-10-07
申请人: Rambus Inc.
发明人: Frederick A. Ware , Ely K. Tsern
IPC分类号: G06F12/00 , G06F13/00 , G06F12/02 , G06F12/0804 , G06F12/08 , G06F12/0802 , G06F12/0891 , G06F12/1009
CPC分类号: G06F12/0253 , G06F12/0246 , G06F12/08 , G06F12/0802 , G06F12/0804 , G06F12/0891 , G06F12/1009 , G06F2212/1036 , G06F2212/2022 , G06F2212/60 , G06F2212/7201 , G06F2212/7205 , G06F2212/7211
摘要: A memory system includes nonvolatile physical memory, such as flash memory, that exhibits a wear mechanism asymmetrically associated with write operations. A relatively small cache of volatile memory reduces the number of writes, and wear-leveling memory access methods distribute writes evenly over the nonvolatile memory.
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公开(公告)号:US11900985B1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-13
申请号:US17405527
申请日:2021-08-18
申请人: Rambus Inc.
发明人: Panduka Wijetunga , Abhishek Desai
IPC分类号: G11C11/4076 , G06F1/06 , H03K3/017
CPC分类号: G11C11/4076 , G06F1/06 , H03K3/017
摘要: A clocking architecture for a memory module is configurable to independently select either rising or falling edges of an input clock as respective references for generation of an internal clock and an output clock. The clocking architecture supports reference edge selection in both a single data rate (SDR) mode and a double data rate (DDR) mode while maintaining a fixed phase relationship between the input clock and the output clock regardless of the reference edge selection.
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公开(公告)号:US11899597B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-13
申请号:US17649773
申请日:2022-02-02
申请人: Rambus Inc.
IPC分类号: G06F13/362 , G06F13/16 , G06F13/00 , G06F13/42
CPC分类号: G06F13/1673 , G06F13/00 , G06F13/4243
摘要: A memory controller and buffers on memory modules each operate in two modes, depending on the type of motherboard through which the controller and modules are connected. In a first mode, the controller transmits decoded chip-select signals independently to each module, and the motherboard data channel uses multi-drop connections to each module. In a second mode, the motherboard has point-to-point data channel and command address connections to each of the memory modules, and the controller transmits a fully encoded chip-select signal group to each module. The buffers operate modally to correctly select ranks or partial ranks of memory devices on one or more modules for each transaction, depending on the mode.
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公开(公告)号:US11899571B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-13
申请号:US17673277
申请日:2022-02-16
申请人: Rambus Inc.
发明人: Frederick A. Ware , Craig E. Hampel
IPC分类号: G06F12/02
CPC分类号: G06F12/02 , G06F12/0292
摘要: Improvements are disclosed for “leveling” or averaging out more evenly the number of activate/precharge cycles seen by the rows of a memory component, so that one or more particular rows are not excessively stressed (relative to the other rows). In one embodiment, a memory controller includes remapping facilities arranged to move data stored in a physical row from RPK to RPK′ and modify the mapping from logical row RLK while minimizing impact on normal read/write operations. Remapping operations may be scheduled relative to refresh or other maintenance operations. Remapping operations may be conditionally deferred so as to minimize performance impact.
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公开(公告)号:US20240036975A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-01
申请号:US18230403
申请日:2023-08-04
申请人: Rambus Inc.
IPC分类号: G06F11/10
CPC分类号: G06F11/1076 , G06F11/1048
摘要: A memory component internally generates and stores the check bits of error detect and correct code (EDC). In a first mode, during a read transaction, the check bits are sent to the memory controller along with the data on the data mask (DM) signal lines. In a second mode, an unmasked write transaction is defined where the check bits are sent to the memory component on the data mask signal lines. In a third mode, a masked write transaction is defined where at least a portion of the check bits are sent from the memory controller on the data signal lines coincident with an asserted data mask signal line. By sending the check bits along with the data, the EDC code can be used to detect and correct errors that occur between the memory component and the memory controller.
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公开(公告)号:US11886375B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-30
申请号:US17751480
申请日:2022-05-23
申请人: Rambus Inc.
发明人: Yohan U. Frans , Hae-Chang Lee , Brian S. Leibowitz , Simon Li , Nhat M. Nguyen
CPC分类号: G06F13/4286 , G06F13/385 , G06F13/4068 , H04L1/0002 , H04L1/0015 , H04L1/203 , H04L1/205 , H04L1/243 , H04L5/1446 , H04L25/0262 , H04L25/0292 , Y02D30/50
摘要: A device includes a transmitter coupled to a node, where the node is to couple to a wired link. The transmitter has a plurality of modes of operation including a calibration mode in which a range of communication data rates over the wired link is determined in accordance with a voltage margin corresponding to the wired link at a predetermined error rate. The range of communication data rates includes a maximum data rate, which can be a non-integer multiple of an initial data rate.
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