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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Gregory S. Mathews, Saratoga, CA (US);
Shane J. Keil, San Jose, CA (US);
Sukalpa Biswas, Fremont, CA (US);
Lakshmi Narasimha Murthy Nukala, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Thejasvi Magudilu Vijavaraj, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory controller circuit coupled to a memory circuit that includes multiple banks may receive multiple access requests including a particular access request to a particular bank of the plurality of banks. The particular access request is associated with a particular virtual channel of a plurality of virtual channels. The memory controller circuit may select a given access requests of the multiple access requests based on an arbitration category value associated with a virtual channel of the given access request and modify the arbitration category value in response to selecting the given access request.