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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2005
Matthias Baer, Dresden, DE;
Falk Tischer, Riesa, DE;
Oliver Goetting, Dresden, DE;
Peer Schlegel, Chemnitz, DE;
Matthias Baer, Dresden, DE;
Falk Tischer, Riesa, DE;
Oliver Goetting, Dresden, DE;
Peer Schlegel, Chemnitz, DE;
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory access technique is provided that may be used in WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) communication devices. An on-chip memory has multiple memory circuits forming individually addressable memory segments. An arbitration unit arbitrates between multiple requesters, each requesting access to the on-chip memory. The requesters are on-chip circuits and/or external devices. The arbitration unit determines a memory circuit to be accessed for each request that is received from a requester. The determination may be based on a software configurable arbitration scheme. The memory segments may form a bank of single-port SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) devices.