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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:
Jan. 25, 1994
Filed:
Feb. 22, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
William K Hilton, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Assignee:
VLSI Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36523003 ; 36523006 ; 395400 ; 395425 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for encoding expanded memory specification addresses and the bankselect signals associated therewith is disclosed. A 13th bit is provided and stores information as to the bankselect for the 12 bits of the expanded memory specification address. When the expanded memory specification register is accessed, the foregoing 13th bit is also retrieved and decoded to provide the proper bankselect decode signal.