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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:
Apr. 25, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395400 ; 395425 ; 365221 ; 36523003 ; 365239 ;
Abstract
An address converter that reduces the number of address bit changes between successive sequential addresses is provided to a RAM address bus for a sequentially accessed RAM. In the presently preferred embodiment, the address converter comprises a plurality of XOR gates for converting the access addresses into gray coded access addresses having at most one address bit change between successive access addresses. As a result, the power consumed and the noise generated over the address bus is reduced, thereby conserving power available and minimizing device package pins required by the digital system having the RAM and the RAM address bus.