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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1996
Hideyuki Iino, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiromasa Takahashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A memory access device including a memory unit having a plurality of independently accessible banks and a pipeline stage number setting unit for setting the number of the pipeline stages in a pipeline operation for accessing the next-to-be-accessed one of the plurality of independently accessible banks before completing an access to a currently accessed one of the plurality of independently accessible banks. The number of banks accessed is not more than the number of the plurality of banks. A unit is provided for generating an address of the next-to-be-accessed one of the plurality of independently accessible banks and for switching a bank from the currently used one of the plurality of independently accessible banks to the next-to-be-accessed one of the plurality of independently accessible banks in accordance with the number of the pipeline stages set by the pipeline stage number setting unit.