Method and apparatus for monitoring memory addresses
AssigneeInha-Industry Partnership Institute
InventorsYung Sup YOON, Kook Pyo LEE
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for monitoring a memory address transmitted along an address path and converted into a row or column address of memory. The method includes: generating a path decision signal for deciding whether to connect the address path to a data terminal of the memory according to a memory command; and when the address path is connected to the data terminal of the memory in response to the path decision signal, transmitting a memory address, corresponding to the memory command, to the data terminal of the memory so that the memory address is monitored through the data terminal of the memory.
Claims16
A method of monitoring memory addresses, each of the memory addresses being transmitted along an address path and being converted into a row or column address of memory, the method comprising the steps of:
- generating a path decision signal for deciding whether to connect the address path to a data terminal of the memory according to a memory command;
- and
- when the address path is connected to the data terminal of the memory in response to the path decision signal, transmitting a memory address, corresponding to the memory command, to the data terminal of the memory so that the memory address is monitored through the data terminal of the memory.
An apparatus for monitoring memory addresses, each of the memory addresses being transmitted along an address path and being converted into a row or column address of memory, the apparatus comprising:
- a path decision signal generation unit for generating a path decision signal for deciding whether to connect the address path to a data terminal of the memory according to a memory command;
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- a path conversion unit for connecting the address path to the data terminal of the memory in response to the path decision signal, and transmitting a memory address, corresponding to the memory command, to the data terminal of the memory so that the memory address is monitored through the data terminal of the memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.