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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2012
Applicants:
Asaf Schushan, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Barak Rotbard, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Inventors:
Asaf Schushan, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Barak Rotbard, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3037 (2013.01); G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 11/3055 (2013.01); G06F 13/1678 (2013.01); G06F 13/1684 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to communicate with multiple memory devices over a bus that includes a plurality of parallel data lines. The processor is configured to request the memory devices to provide respective status reports, and to receive the status reports from the memory devices such that, in a given clock cycle of the bus, the multiple status reports from the respective memory devices are received in parallel over respective different subsets of the data lines of the bus.