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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
David J. Zimmerman, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Robert M. Ellis, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Rajesh Sundaram, Folsom, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/1009 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0658 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01);
Abstract
Devices, systems, and methods having increased efficiency selective writing to memory are disclosed and described. A memory controller, upon receiving a dirty data segment, performs a read-modify-write to retrieve a corresponding data line from memory, saves a copy of the data line, merges the dirty data segment into the appropriate location in the data line to create a modified data line, and generates a write mask from the modified data line and the copy of the data line.