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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2008
Tony M. Brewer, Plano, TX (US);
J. Michael Andrewartha, Plano, TX (US);
William D. O'leary, Plano, TX (US);
Michael K. Dugan, Richardson, TX (US);
Tony M. Brewer, Plano, TX (US);
J. Michael Andrewartha, Plano, TX (US);
William D. O'Leary, Plano, TX (US);
Michael K. Dugan, Richardson, TX (US);
Convey Computer, Richardson, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed generally to systems and methods which provide a memory module having multiple data channels that are independently accessible (i.e., a multi-data channel memory module). According to one embodiment, the multi-data channel memory module enables a plurality of independent sub-cache-block accesses to be serviced simultaneously. In addition, the memory architecture also supports cache-block accesses. For instance, multiple ones of the data channels may be employed for servicing a cache-block access. In one embodiment a DIMM architecture that comprises multiple data channels is provided. Each data channel supports a sub-cache-block access, and multiple ones of the data channels may be used for supporting a cache-block access. The plurality of data channels to a given DIMM may be used simultaneously to support different, independent memory access operations.