Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology

Jinin So

Kyungsoo Kim

Yongsuk Kwon

Jonggeon Lee

Jin Woo Jung

Jeonghyeon Cho

Jong-Geon Lee

Nayeon Kim

Kyoungwan Woo

Daehoon Kim

Prashant Vishwanath Mahendrakar

Eldho Pathiyakkara Thombra Mathew

Vishnu Charan Thummala

Raghu Vamsi Krishna Talanki

Eldho Mathew Pathiyakkara Thombra

Archita Khare

Sachin Suresh Upadhya

Ilkwon Yun

Hwanjun Lee

Rahul Tarikere Ravikumar

Mayuresh Jyotindra Salelkar

Ravi Shankar Venkata Jonnalagadda

A memory module includes a device memory configured to store data and including a first memory area and a second memory area, and a controller including an accelerator circuit. The controller is configured to control the device memory, transmit a command to exclude the first memory area from the system memory map to a host processor in response to a mode change request, and modify a memory configuration register to exclude the first memory area from the memory configuration register. The accelerator circuit is configured to use the first memory area to perform an acceleration operation.

Memory module, system including the same, and operation method of memory module

A processor includes a processing core configured to process each of a plurality of requests by accessing a corresponding one of a first memory and a second memory, a latency monitor configured to generate first latency information and second latency information, the first latency information comprising a first access latency to the first memory, and the second latency information comprising a second access latency to the second memory, a plurality of cache ways divided into a first partition and a second partition, and a decision engine configured to allocate each of the plurality of cache ways to one of the first partition and the second partition, based on the first latency information and the second latency information.

Processor, system, and method for dynamic cache allocation

A method of operating a Near Memory Processing-Dual In-line Memory (NMP-DIMM) system, the method including: determining, by an adaptive latency module of the NMP-DIMM system, a synchronized read latency value for performing a read operation upon receiving a Multi-Purpose Register (MPR) read instruction from a host device communicatively connected with the NMP-DIMM system, wherein the MPR read instruction is received from the host device for training the NMP-DIMM system, wherein the synchronized read latency value is determined based on one or more read latency values associated with one or more memory units of the NMP-DIMM system; and synchronizing, by the adaptive latency module, one or more first type data paths and a second type data path in the NMP-DIMM system based on the determined synchronized read latency value.

Methods of operating a near memory processing-dual in-line memory module (NMP-DIMM) for performing a read operation and an adaptive latency module and a system thereof

An accelerator module includes a plurality of memories and a controller. The controller includes a plurality of memory controllers, a plurality of processing units, and a managing circuit. The plurality of memory controllers and the plurality of memories form a plurality of memory sub-channels. The plurality of processing units perform computational operations on a plurality of data stored in or read from the plurality of memories. The managing circuit redistributes tasks performed by the plurality of processing units or changes connections between the plurality of memory controllers and the plurality of processing units in response to a first memory sub-channel and a first processing unit being in a heavy-workload state.

Accelerator module and computing system including the same

A memory includes: a request register configured to receive a first signal including a requester identifier using a first protocol from a host and configured to output a first priority corresponding to the requester identifier; a checker module configured to receive a second signal including a command and a request type from the host and using a second protocol that is different than the first protocol, where the checker module is configured to receive the first priority from the request register, and where the checker module is configured to determine a second priority of the command based on the first priority and the request type; a command generator configured to generate an internal command for memory operation based on the command; and a memory controller configured to schedule the internal command in a command queue based on the second priority.

Memory device and scheduling method thereof

A memory interface for interfacing with a memory device includes a control circuit configured to determine whether a trigger event has occurred for initializing one or more memory locations in the memory device, and initialize the one or more memory locations in the memory device with pre-defined data upon determining the trigger event has occurred.

Memory interface for initalizing memory and method thereof

A Near Memory Processing (NMP) Dual In-line Memory Module (DIMM) is provided that includes random access memory (RAM), a Near-Memory-Processing (NMP) circuit and a first control port. The NMP circuit is for receiving a command from a host system, determining an operation to be performed on the RAM in response to the command, and a location of data within the RAM with respect to the determined operation. The first control port interacts with a second control port of the host system to enable the NMP circuit to exchange control information with the host system in response to the received command.

Near memory processing (NMP) dual in-line memory module (DIMM)

A booting method of a computing system, which includes a memory module including a processing device connected to a plurality of memory devices, including: powering up the computing system; after powering up the computing system, performing first memory training on the plurality of memory devices by the processing device in the memory module, and generating a module ready signal indicating completion of the first memory training; after powering up the computing system, performing a first booting sequence by a host device, the host device executing basic input/output system (BIOS) code of a BIOS memory included in the computing system; waiting for the module ready signal to be received from the memory module in the host device after performing the first booting sequence; and receiving the module ready signal in the host device, and performing a second booting sequence based on the module ready signal.

Booting method of computing system including memory module with processing device mounted

Memory modules and memory systems having the same are provided. A memory module may include command/address terminals, data terminals, at least one monitoring terminal, a buffer, and a plurality of semiconductor memory devices. The buffer may be configured to receive and buffer data applied through the data terminals and a command/address applied through the command/address terminals to generate buffered write data and a buffered command/address. The buffer may be configured to buffer the buffered write data and the buffered command/address to generate module data and a module command/address, and store and then transmit at least one portion of the buffered write data as monitoring data through the at least one monitoring terminal. The plurality of semiconductor memory devices may be configured to receive and store the module data in response to the module command/address.

Memory modules and memory systems having the same

A memory module includes a first memory device, a second memory device, and a processing buffer circuit that is connected to the first memory device and the second memory device (independently of each other) and a host. A processing buffer circuit is provided, which includes a processing circuit and a buffer. The processing circuit processes at least one of data received from the host, data stored in the first memory device, or data stored in the second memory device based on a processing command received from the host. The buffer is configured to store data processed by the processing circuit. The processing buffer circuit is configured to communicate with the host in compliance with a DDR SDRAM standard.

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