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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2022
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Shiraishi, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A memory controller for accessing a memory, comprises a holding circuit which holds a plurality of read or write access requests from a bus master, a read/write control circuit which selects one of the access requests in the holding circuit and issues a read command or a write command; and an active control circuit which selects the access request held in the holding circuit and issues an active command, wherein the active control circuit includes a generation circuit that generates number of activated read commands and number of activated write commands, and a selection circuit that, when the number of activated read commands is not less a threshold, issues the active command of an read access, and when the number of activated write commands is not less than the threshold, issues the active command of a write access.