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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2003
Chen-chi Kuo, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rohit Natarajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kin-yip Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Prashant R. Chandra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James D. Guilford, Northborough, MA (US);
Chen-Chi Kuo, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rohit Natarajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kin-Yip Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Prashant R. Chandra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James D. Guilford, Northborough, MA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, software and systems to determine channel ownership and physical block location within the channel in non-uniformly distributed DRAM configurations and also to detect in-range memory address matches are presented. A first method, which may also be implemented in software and/or hardware, allocates memory non-uniformly between a number of memory channels, determines a selected memory channel from the memory channels for a program address, and maps the program address to a physical address within the selected memory channel. A second method, which may also be implemented in software and/or hardware, designates a range of memory to perform address matching, monitors memory accesses and when a memory access occurs with the specified range, perform a particular function.