Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Pedro P. Hernadez
  • Patent number: 6253297
    Abstract: A memory controller circuit (18a) for coupling to a memory (24), where the memory has a plurality of rows. The memory controller circuit includes circuitry (28) for receiving signals representative of requests to access the memory. Given these signals, a first such signal representative of a first request to access the memory is received by the circuitry for receiving and comprises a first address in the memory, and a second signal representative of a second request to access the memory is received by the circuitry for receiving after the first signal and comprises a second address in the memory. The memory controller circuit also includes determining circuitry (30, RAn, AC13 Bn13 ROW, C_B_Rn) for determining whether the second address is directed to a same one of the plurality of rows as the first address. Still further, the memory controller circuit includes circuitry (30) for issuing control signals to the memory in response to receiving signals representative of requests to access the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Gérard Chauvel, Serge Lasserre, Dominique Benoît Jacques d'Inverno