Memory controller and memory control method for generating commands based on a memory request

A memory control method performed by a memory controller, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a first buffer, a first memory request from a host and storing the received first memory request, the first memory request including an address;
• determining, by a request scheduler, an order in which the first memory request is transferred to the command generator;
• identifying the first memory request is a memory request for a processing in memory (PIM) memory based on the address of the first memory request;
• generating, by the request generator, one or more second memory requests based on a generation parameter of the first memory request based on the identifying;
• generating, by the command generator, a first command corresponding to the first memory request and one or more second commands corresponding to the one or more second memory requests;
• and
• scheduling, by the command scheduler, the first command and the one or more second commands.

A memory controller comprising:

• a request generator configured to identify a first memory request is a memory request for a processing in memory (PIM) memory in response to an address of the first memory request being determined to correspond to the PIM memory, and generate one or more memory requests based on a preset generation parameter based on a result of the identifying;
• a first buffer configured to store the one or more memory requests;
• a request scheduler configured to determine an order in which the one or more memory requests are transferred to a command generator;
• the command generator is configured to generate commands corresponding to the one or more memory requests and to store the generated commands in a second buffer;
• and
• a command scheduler configured to schedule the commands.