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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 1993
Filed:
May. 20, 1991
Richard M Stern, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Floyd D Kendrick, Jr, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jordan R Silver, San Jose, CA (US);
Tandem Computers Incorporated, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory system is implemented by an array of large scale integrated dynamic random access memory elements. The memory elements are of a type that permit data way word storage on a page basis, each page being defined on a row boundary. Discovering that excess power consumption by the memory can result from successive memory operations made back-to-back to different page locations, the present invention provides counter means to count each immediately successive different page memory operations so that, when that count matches a maximum count, memory operations are stalled for a period of time.