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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:
Aug. 30, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 14, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Philip A Bourekas, San Jose, CA (US);
Danh L Ngoc, Saratoga, CA (US);
Scott Revak, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Integrated Device Technology, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365221 ; 365 78 ; 36518902 ; 365239 ;
Abstract
Using a separate data register effectively increases the efficiency of an on-chip write buffer implemented as a FIFO structure. The separate register holds the output data during write cycles, allowing the write buffer FIFO to make the space consumed by the current write available at the start, rather than at the end of the write cycle. This effectively makes the write buffer 'four and one-half' entries deep, thereby increasing performance of the buffer without adding additional FIFO entries.