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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2005
Alexandre Andreev, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrey Nikitin, Moscow, RU;
Ranko Scepanovic, Saratoga, CA (US);
Igor A. Vikhliantsev, San Jose, CA (US);
Alexandre Andreev, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrey Nikitin, Moscow, RU;
Ranko Scepanovic, Saratoga, CA (US);
Igor A. Vikhliantsev, San Jose, CA (US);
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for creating and using a memory timing database. A plurality of characterization memories are defined, which can be mapped to a memory resource. Each characterization memory has different memory parameters. A plurality of variants of tiling each characterization memory to the memory resource are also defined. Timing characteristics of each tiling variant of each characterization memory are stored in the memory timing database for the memory resource based on sets of input ramptimes and output loads.