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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2000
Filed:
May. 06, 1998
Richard Stephen Roy, Danville, CA (US);
Hitachi Micro Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An independent memory architecture is provided which includes a plurality of multi-line channels each capable of carrying either data or address information to a plurality of independent memory clusters. The channels operate independently to access and store data in separate ones of the memory clusters. The independent operation enables faster and more efficient utilization within a memory device over any prior art memory architecture. Each of the clusters have one or more independently addressable memory banks respectively having a plurality of data storage locations organized into respective arrays with each of the storage locations having a distinct column and row address.