Abstract:
A register not connected to a data bus is read by transferring data across an address bus to a device connected to the data bus, from which the data is read by a device connected to the data bus. The register resides in a register device connected via the address bus to a memory device that is connected to both the address bus and the data bus. A host processor triggers the register device to transfer information over the address bus to a register on the memory device. The host processor then reads the information from the register of the memory device.
Abstract:
Embodiments of an apparatus, system and method for using Per DRAM Addressability (PDA) to program Multi-Purpose Registers (MPRs) of a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) device are described herein. Embodiments of the invention allow unique 32 bit patterns to be stored for each DRAM device on a rank, thereby enabling data bus training to be done in parallel. Furthermore, embodiments of the invention provide 32 bits of storage per DRAM device on a rank for the system BIOS for storing codes such as MR values, or for any other purpose (e.g., temporary scratch storage to be used by BIOS processes).