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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2019
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 (2006.01); G11C 11/406 (2006.01); G11C 5/04 (2006.01); G06F 1/3225 (2019.01); G11C 11/4074 (2006.01); G11C 11/4096 (2006.01); G11C 11/4093 (2006.01); G06F 1/3234 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/40615 (2013.01); G06F 1/3225 (2013.01); G06F 1/3275 (2013.01); G11C 5/04 (2013.01); G11C 11/4074 (2013.01); G11C 11/4093 (2013.01); G11C 11/4096 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are mechanisms and methods for reducing power consumed by various DRAM technologies (e.g., high-capacity DRAM and/or 3D DRAM) which may impact battery life of the platform. These mechanisms and methods may opportunistically reduce the power consumed by DRAM by inhibiting periodic refresh commands to memory ranks that are not in-use. Since these mechanisms and methods may be based on enhancements to memory controllers, they may accordingly be operating system (OS) agnostic.