US 2015/0032941 A1 · NON-VOLATILE MEMORY INTERFACE

Abstract

In an embodiment, a memory interface may send an indication that a request is being sent. The indication may be sent to a non-volatile memory via a point-to-point bus between a memory interface and the non-volatile memory. The memory interface may send the request to the non-volatile memory via the bus. The request may include an address that may be used to identify a location for storing or reading data. The non-volatile memory may acquire the request from the bus and process the request. After processing the request, the non-volatile memory may send an indication to the memory interface that indicates the non-volatile memory has a response to send to the memory interface. The memory interface may grant access to the bus to the non-volatile memory. After being granted access to the bus, the non-volatile memory may send the response to the memory interface.

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Dependent claims

1-24. (canceled)

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/128,669Filed 25 Jul 2013

Published

29 Jan 2015

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Classification10 codes

G06F 12/0246
Memory management in non-volatile memory, e.g. resistive RAM or ferroelectric memory: in block erasable memory, e.g. flash memory
G06F 3/0679
Single storage device: non-volatile semiconductor memory device, e.g. flash memory, one time programmable memory [OTP]
G06F 13/12
Program control for peripheral devices: using hardware independent of the central processor, e.g. channel or peripheral processor
G06F 13/16
Handling requests for interconnection or transfer: for access to memory bus

Non-volatile memory interface

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Non-volatile memory interface

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Abstract

Claims24