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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2006
Applicants:
Chee Hak Teh, Penang, MY;
Suryaprasad Kareenahalli, Folsom, CA (US);
Zohar Bogin, Folsom, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Embodiments of a memory scoreboard are presented herein. The memory scoreboard tracks memory requests for each rank and bank of memory being addressed. When there are no pending requests, the scoreboard provides an indication to an idle timer that begins a count down to close a current page of the memory. The idle timer can be configured dynamically to close memory pages and to address dynamically-changing code streams by tracking previous decisions made on page closes.