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Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 24, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Venkata K. Tavva, Hyderabad, IN;

Dharmesh Parikh, Bangalore, IN;

Stephen J. Powell, Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/1605 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01);
Abstract

Scheduling memory operations using bank groups including receiving, by a sequencing engine in a memory controller, a set of operations targeting locations in a memory device, wherein the memory device comprises a plurality of bank groups; determining, by the sequencing engine, a targeted bank group of each of the set of operations; selecting, by the sequencing engine, one of the set of operations based on the targeted bank group of each of the set of operations and a bank group of a previously sent operation; and sending, by the sequencing engine, the selected one of the set of operations to the memory device.


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