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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2016
Applicant:
Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Chi-Ming Yeung, Cupertino, CA (US);
David Secker, San Jose, CA (US);
Ravindranath Kollipara, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shajith Musaliar Sirajudeen, Bangalore, IN;
Yoshie Nakabayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4068 (2013.01);
Abstract
System and method for dynamic termination control to enable use of an increased number of memory modules on a single channel. In some embodiments, six or eight DIMMs are coupled to a single channel. The dynamic termination scheme can include configurations for input bus termination (IBT) on each of the memory modules for the address bus/command bus and configurations for on-die termination (ODT) one each of the memory modules for the data bus.