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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2004
Sven Kalms, München, DE;
Helmut Kandolf, München, DE;
Sven Kalms, München, DE;
Helmut Kandolf, München, DE;
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, DE;
Abstract
One embodiment of the invention provides a hub chip comprising: an address bus input for receiving a plurality of successively sent portions of address and/or command data, a shift register which has register elements and is connected to the address bus input to receive the plurality of portions of the address and/or command data, the shift register being connected to the address bus input so that, when the address and/or command data are received, the portions of the address and/or command data are successively written to the register elements, an address bus output for outputting the received address and/or command data, a memory module interface for connecting one or more memory modules, where the hub chip addresses none, one or a plurality of the connected memory modules, depending on the address and/or command data transferred, and a driver element provided to output the received portion of the address and/or command data to the address bus output before all of the portions of the address and/or command data have been received in full.