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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2004
Applicants:

Michael Farmwald, Berkeley, CA (US);

Mark Horowitz, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Farmwald, Berkeley, CA (US);

Mark Horowitz, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Rambus Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A memory module including an integrated circuit is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the memory module may comprise a plurality of memory devices and an integrated circuit device that is coupled to the plurality of memory devices. The integrated circuit device includes a first circuit to receive control information specifying a write operation, and address information specifying a memory location corresponding to the write operation, wherein the memory location is in a first memory device of the plurality of memory devices, and wherein the control information and the address information are received in a multiplexed format. The integrated circuit device also includes a second circuit, including a plurality of output drivers, to output data after a first number of clock cycles of an external clock signal transpire, wherein the data is to be written to the first memory device during the write operation.


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