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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2005
Applicant:
Jiing Lin, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Inventor:
Jiing Lin, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Assignee:
VIA Technologies Inc., Hsin-Tien, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 1/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A chipset has a plurality of driving units, each unit connecting to an address pin of a memory module for driving a one-bit address signal while accessing the memory module. The method detects configurations of memory modules, and determines which address pins are unused and makes corresponding driving units stop driving to reduce power consumption of unused address pins.