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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:
Oct. 15, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 02, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
James D Joseph, Monument, CO (US);
Assignee:
Ramtron International Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395445 ; 395432 ; 36523008 ;
Abstract
A single address register control technique for a memory controller allows both cache 'reads' and page-mode 'writes' to be implemented without requiring separate hardware address registers for each function. Because both functions may be implemented with virtually no performance loss in a high performance memory system using a single address register, a comparator, and one additional register, the costs and other disadvantages inherent in otherwise replicating control registers are obviated.