Patents by Inventor Atsunon Hirobe

Atsunon Hirobe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8218389
    Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes a timing allocation unit that sets refresh timing to preferentially perform a refresh operation for maintaining data and data access timing to preferentially perform a data access operation for reading or writing the data in accordance with a clock signal with respect to each memory bank including a plurality of memory cells, and a waiting unit that waits start of the data access operation until the data access timing is started in a case where a request for the data access operation is made during the refresh timing and waits start of the refresh operation until the refresh timing is started in a case where a request for the refresh operation is made during the data access timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Atsunon Hirobe