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Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 15, 2016
Applicant:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

James R. Magro, Austin, TX (US);

Kedarnath Balakrishnan, Austin, TX (US);

Jackson Peng, San Jose, CA (US);

Hideki Kanayama, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/1689 (2013.01); G06F 13/4068 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one form, a memory controller includes a command queue and an arbiter. The command queue receives and stores memory access requests. The arbiter includes a plurality of sub-arbiters for providing a corresponding plurality of sub-arbitration winners from among the memory access requests during a controller cycle, and for selecting among the plurality of sub-arbitration winners to provide a plurality of memory commands in a corresponding controller cycle. In another form, a data processing system includes a memory accessing agent for providing memory accesses requests, a memory system, and the memory controller coupled to the memory accessing agent and the memory system.


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