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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. 16, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas J Kocis, Austin, TX (US);
Anthony K Patterson, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dell USA, L.P., Austin, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39542103 ; 395375 ; 364D / ;
Abstract
A computer system where memory access is accelerated by automatically incrementing the address at the memory chip inputs, as soon as the minimum hold time has occurred. If the next address actually requested by the CPU does not match this predicted address, then the actual address is driven onto the chip inputs as usual, so essentially no time is lost. However, if the automatically incremented address does match the next actually requested address, then a significant fraction of the chip's required access time has been saved.