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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2022
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Jasper S. Gibbons, Meridian, ID (US);
Matthew A. Prather, Boise, ID (US);
Brent Keeth, Boise, ID (US);
Frank F Ross, Boise, ID (US);
Daniel Benjamin Stewart, Boise, ID (US);
Randall J. Rooney, Boise, ID (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides techniques for using a multiple-port buffer to improve a transaction rate of a memory module. In an example, a memory module can include a circuit board having an external interface, first memory devices mounted to the circuit board, and a first multiple-port buffer circuit mounted to the circuit board. The first multiple-port buffer circuit can include a first port coupled to data lines of the external interface, the first port configured to operate at a first transaction rate, a second port coupled to data lines of a first plurality of the first memory devices, and a third port coupled to data lines of a second plurality of the first memory devices. The second and third ports can be configured to operate at a second transaction rate, wherein the second transaction rate is slower than the first transaction rate.