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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. 24, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicants:

Kun Xu, Austin, TX (US);

Tommi M. Jokinen, Austin, TX (US);

David B. Kramer, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Inventors:

Kun Xu, Austin, TX (US);

Tommi M. Jokinen, Austin, TX (US);

David B. Kramer, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/1631 (2013.01); G06F 13/1647 (2013.01); G06F 13/28 (2013.01); G06F 2213/16 (2013.01); G06F 2213/2806 (2013.01);
Abstract

A communication channel controller includes a queue, a memory map, and a scheduler. The queue to store a first memory transfer request received at the communication channel controller. The memory map stores information to identify a memory address range to be associated with a memory. The scheduler to compare a source address of the first memory transfer in the queue to the memory address range in the memory map to determine whether the source address of the first memory transfer request targets the memory, and in response allocate the first memory transfer request to a first communication channel of a plurality of communication channels in response to the first communication channel having all of its outstanding memory transactions to a common source address bank and source address page as a source address bank and a source address page of the first memory transfer request.


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