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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1992
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert W Catlin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Chips and Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395425 ; 364D / ; 36424531 ; 36523001 ; 36523002 ; 36523006 ;
Abstract
A memory controller which can map EMS addresses into the DRAM behind video RAM addresses or other reserved areas of memory. A single chip has both a DRAM decoder and an EMS decoder operating in parallel. A DRAM decoder examines received addresses and provides an enable signal to a DRAM timing circuit if the address is within the DRAM range and not for a reserved group of addresses. A separate EMS decoder provides a translated address when a received address is within an EMS window. The EMS decoder also provides an EMS timing signal to the DRAM timing circuit.