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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 25, 2013
Applicant:

Silicon Image, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alan Ruberg, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Seung-jong Lee, Cupertino, CA (US);

Hyung Rok Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Daeyun Shim, Saratoga, CA (US);

Dongyun Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Sungjoon Kim, Cupertino, CA (US);

Anu Murthy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Silicon Image, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G11C 5/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/1663 (2013.01); G11C 5/066 (2013.01); G06F 11/1443 (2013.01); G11C 7/1075 (2013.01); G06F 11/141 (2013.01); G06F 13/4234 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, apparatus and system for reducing memory latency is disclosed. In one embodiment, data between a host computer system and a memory is communicated via a port or a group of ports at the memory over multiple time intervals, wherein the host computer is coupled to the memory. Further, a command associated with the data is communicated between the host computer system and the memory via the port or the group of ports over a single time interval.


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