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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1994
Roy C Flaker, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Gregory J Schroer, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Roderick M West, Colchester, VT (US);
Todd Williams, Burlington, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An integrated memory structure, and associated processing method, is coupled to receive address data and control data. The memory structure includes a composite memory array having a first array portion and a second array portion which are separately addressable. The first array portion is accessed using at least some of the address data as a first address signal and the second array portion is addressed using at least some of the control data also as a second address signal. The memory structure is presented herein by way of example for a serial palette digital-to-analog (SPD) device, and incorporates indirect color mode, direct color mode, overlay color mode and cursor color mode processing in a single macro. When in direct color mode, access to the memory array is disabled and address data is transferred directly to an output of the memory structure as data out.