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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2019
Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yohan Frans, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Simon Li, Cupertino, CA (US);
John Eric Linstadt, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jun Kim, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Rambus Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory controller comprises a command interface to transmit a memory command to a plurality of memory devices associated with the memory controller. The memory controller also comprises an acknowledgement interface to receive an acknowledgment status packet from the plurality of memory devices over a shared acknowledgement link coupled between the memory controller and the plurality of memory devices, the acknowledgement status packet indicating whether the command was received by the plurality of memory devices. In addition, the memory controller comprises a memory controller core to decode the acknowledgment status packet to identify a portion of the acknowledgement status packet corresponding to each of the plurality of memory devices.