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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
May. 30, 2003
Masashi Hashimoto, Garland, TX (US);
Gene A. Frantz, Missouri City, TX (US);
John Victor Moravec, Willow Springs, IL (US);
Jean-Pierre Dolait, Villeneuve-Loubet, FR;
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A memory circuit ( ) having features specifically adapted to permit the memory circuit ( ) to serve as a video frame memory is disclosed. The memory circuit ( ) contains a dynamic random access memory array ( ) with buffers ( ) on input and output data ports ( ) thereof to permit asynchronous read, write and refresh accesses to the memory array ( ). The memory circuit ( ) is accessed both serially and randomly. An address generator ( ) contains an address buffer register ( ) which stores a random access address and an address sequencer ( ) which provides a stream of addresses to the memory array ( ). An initial address for the stream of addresses is the random access address stored in the address buffer register ( ).