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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2005
Sandeep Jain, Milpitas, CA (US);
David Wyatt, San Jose, CA (US);
Jun Shi, San Jose, CA (US);
Animesh Mishra, Pleasanton, CA (US);
John Halbert, Beaverton, OR (US);
Melik Isbara, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sandeep Jain, Milpitas, CA (US);
David Wyatt, San Jose, CA (US);
Jun Shi, San Jose, CA (US);
Animesh Mishra, Pleasanton, CA (US);
John Halbert, Beaverton, OR (US);
Melik Isbara, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Thermal management and communication is described in the context of memory modules that contain several memory devices. In one example, the invention includes determining a temperature of a first memory device, the first memory device containing a plurality of memory cells, determining a temperature of a second memory device after determining the temperature of the first memory device, the second memory device containing a plurality of memory cells, and generating an alarm based on an evaluation of the first and the second temperatures. In another example, the invention includes detecting a thermal event on a memory device of a memory module that contains a plurality of memory devices, detecting the state of an event bus of the memory module, and sending an alert on the event bus if the event bus is in an unoccupied state.