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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 11, 1993
Scott A Dresser, Mountain View, CA (US);
Scott A Markinson, Goffstown, NH (US);
Richard B Goud, Concord, MA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is provided for determining a configuration of memory modules. Each of the memory modules produces presence detect bits. In a first feature, the apparatus includes an external register for receiving the presence detect bits from the memory modules in parallel and a memory controller integrated circuit. The memory controller integrated circuit includes an internal register for storing the presence detect bits and logic circuitry for determining a memory configuration. The presence detect bits are serially transferred from the external register to the internal register. In a second feature, the logic circuitry for determining a memory configuration includes comparator circuitry for comparing the presence detect bits of each pair of memory modules and generating a match signal or a mismatch signal. When a match signal occurs, the presence detect bits of the memory module pair are loaded into a memory configuration register. When a mismatch signal occurs, a mismatch code is loaded into the memory configuration register.