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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2023
Rambus Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Taeksang Song, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven Woo, Saratoga, CA (US);
Craig Hampel, Los Altos, CA (US);
John Eric Linstadt, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rambus Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for flexible metadata allocation and caching. In one embodiment of the method first and second requests are received from first and second applications, respectively, wherein the requests specify a reading of first and second data, respectively, from one or more memory devices. The circuit reads the first and second data in response to receiving the first and second requests. Receiving first and second metadata from the one or more memory devices in response to receiving the first and second requests. The first and second metadata correspond to the first and second data, respectively. The first and second data are equal in size, and the first and second metadata are unequal in size.