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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2001
Tetsuhito Nakamura, Hachioji, JP;
Naonobu Sukegawa, Inagi, JP;
Tsuguo Matsuura, Hadano, JP;
Masanao Ito, Hadano, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A memory system having a DRAM or synchronous DRAM as a memory unit. A memory controller which controls the memory unit in correspondence with a memory access request received from a memory access request generator, has a row address buffer for storing a row address extracted from an issued memory access request, avoiding registration of same row address into different positions, a pointer register for storing a pointer to a registration entry in the row address buffer holding the row address, correspondence detection circuit that detects whether or not row addresses of issued access requests correspond with each other by comparing stored pointers, and a memory unit control circuit which continuously issues column addresses of plural requests with row addresses corresponding with each other to the DRAM.