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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1999
Billy Wayne Garrett, Jr., Mountain View, CA (US);
Frederick Abbott Ware, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Craig E. Hampel, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard M. Barth, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Donald C. Stark, Los Altos, CA (US);
Abhijit Mukund Abhyankar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Catherine Yuhjung Chen, Milpitas, CA (US);
Thomas J. Sheffler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ely K. Tsern, Los Altos, CA (US);
Steven Cameron Woo, Saratoga, CA (US);
Rambus Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
A high-speed memory system is disclosed in which a single command effects control over either a single memory device or a plurality of memory devices depending on a present mode of operation. Such control may effect data transfer between the one or more memory devices and a memory controller, as well as operating state transitions or power mode transitions for the memory devices. Similarly, various configurations of relatively low bandwidth memory devices respond as a selectively controllable group to transmit or receive high bandwidth data.