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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:
Feb. 01, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Alexander Joffe, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
MMC Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36523005 ; 36523008 ; 36523001 ; 370395 ;
Abstract
A memory interface unit comprising a bus interface unit, a buffer which can store multiple data burst subsets in transit to or from a digital memory, and a switch which includes an externally accessible a master data path for the transfer data to or from the bus interface unit and which includes an externally accessible slave data path for the transfer of data to or from the buffer and which includes a direct data path for the transfer data between the bus interface unit and the buffet.