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US 2004/0003192 A1Published application
Method and system to retrieve information
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsShekoufeh Qawami, Chaitanya S. Rajguru, Sanjay S. Talreja
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Abstract
Briefly, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method and system to retrieve information from a memory is provided. The method may include transferring information from the memory in response to at least two synchronous burst read requests using pipelining.
Claims28
A method, comprising:
- transferring a first request and a second request to a memory to request data from the memory;
- and
- transferring only a portion of the data requested in response to the first request to an output terminal of the memory while sensing data in response to the second request.
A method, comprising:
- receiving at least two requests to retrieve information from a memory, wherein a first request of the at least two requests includes requesting information beginning at an address of the memory that is not a predetermined boundary address;
- and
- retrieving information in response to the two requests using pipelining.
A method to retrieve information from a memory, wherein information is sensed from the memory using predetermined address boundaries, the method comprising:
- receiving a first request to retrieve information stored beginning at a first address of the memory, wherein the first address is not located at any of the predetermined address boundaries;
- receiving a second request to retrieve information stored beginning at a second address of the memory;
- and
- transferring at least a portion of the information retrieved in response to the first request from an output terminal of the memory while sensing at least a portion of the information retrieved in response to the second request.
1 more element
A method, comprising:
- transferring first and second read requests to a memory, wherein the first read request is a continuous burst read request;
- and
- transferring information from the memory in response to the first and second read requests using pipelining.
A method, comprising:
- transferring a first request to a memory to retrieve data stored beginning at a first address of the memory;
- transferring a second request to a memory to retrieve data stored beginning at a second address of the memory;
- transferring data stored at the first address to a bus in response to the first request, and also in response to the first request, sequentially transferring data located at addresses other than the first address to the bus until all data stored in the memory is transferred from the memory or until an event occurs to terminate the transfer of data to the bus in response to the first request;
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- transferring at least a portion of the data retrieved in response to the first request to the bus while sensing at least a portion of the data requested by the second request.
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An article comprising a storage medium having stored thereon instructions, that, when executed by a computing platform, result in:
- transferring first and second read requests to a memory, wherein the first read request is a continuous burst read request;
- and
- retrieving information from the memory in response to the first and second read requests using pipelining.
A system, comprising:
- a memory controller;
- a nonvolatile memory coupled to the memory controller, wherein information is stored in the nonvolatile memory using predetermined boundary addresses and wherein the nonvolatile memory is adapted to respond to more than one request;
- and
- wherein the nonvolatile memory comprises:
- a sensing device;
- and
- a buffer coupled to the sensing device, wherein the buffer is separate from the sensing device to allow pipelining in response to first and second requests, wherein the nonvolatile memory is adapted to receive the first request that requests information beginning at an address that is not any of the predetermined boundary addresses, and wherein the nonvolatile memory is adapted to retrieve information using pipelining in response to the first and second reads.
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