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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Daehyun Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher J. Hughes, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yen-Kuang Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Partha Kundu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0806 (2013.01); G06F 12/08 (2013.01); G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 12/0815 (2013.01); G06F 12/0817 (2013.01); G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 12/0877 (2013.01); G06F 12/0891 (2013.01); G06F 12/0897 (2013.01); G11C 7/1072 (2013.01); G11C 7/1075 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6026 (2013.01); G06F 2212/62 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1225 (2013.01);
Abstract
A scatter/gather technique optimizes unstructured streaming memory accesses, providing off-chip bandwidth efficiency by accessing only useful data at a fine granularity, and off-loading memory access overhead by supporting address calculation, data shuffling, and format conversion.