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AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsPankaj Deshmukh, Shyamkumar Thoziyoor, Vishakh Balakuntalam Visweswara, Jungwon Suh, Subbarao Palacharla
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A memory system with adaptive refresh commands is disclosed. In one aspect, a memory system or device that has multiple banks within a channel may receive a per bank command that indicates a first bank to be refreshed and provides additional information about a second bank to be refreshed. In a further exemplary aspect, a quad bank refresh command may be sent that indicates a first bank to be refreshed and provides additional information about second through fourth banks to be refreshed. In a further exemplary aspect, an octa bank refresh command may be sent that indicates a first bank to be refreshed and provides additional information about second through eighth banks to be refreshed. The three new refresh commands allow adjacent or spaced banks to be refreshed.
A memory device comprising:
A memory controller configured to couple to a memory device, the memory controller comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.