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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2023
Rambus Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Frederick A. Ware, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Thomas Vogelsang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Raymond Miller, Raleigh, NC (US);
Collins Williams, Raleigh, NC (US);
Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a memory system including a memory component having at least one tag row and at least one data row and multiple ways to hold a data group as a cache-line or cache-block. The memory system includes a memory controller that is connectable to the memory component to implement a cache and operable with the memory controller and the memory component in each of a plurality of operating modes including a first and second operating mode having differing addressing and timing requirements for accessing the data group. The first operating mode having placement of each of at least two ways of a data group in differing rows in the memory component, with tag access and data access not overlapped. The second operating mode having placement of all ways of a data group in a same row in the memory component, with tag access and data access overlapped.