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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2005
Filed:
May. 27, 2003
Venkatachalam Shanmugasundaram, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Edward Paluch, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shirish Gadre, San Jose, CA (US);
Jean Kao, Cupertino, CA (US);
Venkatachalam Shanmugasundaram, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Edward Paluch, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shirish Gadre, San Jose, CA (US);
Jean Kao, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide a memory controller comprising a front-end module, a back-end module communicatively coupled to the front-end module, and a physical interface module communicatively coupled to the back-end module. The front-end module generates a plurality of page packets from a plurality of received memory commands, wherein the order of receipt of said memory commands is preserved. The back-end module dynamically issues a next one of the plurality of page packets while issuing a current one of the plurality of page packets. The physical interface module causes a plurality of transfers according to the dynamically issued current one and next one of the plurality of page packets.