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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2012
Applicant:
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 8/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method can include storing bank addresses, if received, on at least rising and falling edges of a same clock cycle; and if addresses stored on the rising and falling edges of the same clock cycle correspond to different banks of a memory device, starting accesses to both banks after the falling edge of the clock cycle; wherein any of the banks can be accessed in response to an address stored on a rising edge of a next clock cycle. Devices and additional methods are also disclosed.