Method and apparatus for fast page mode selection
CA 2056512 A1 · Owner: Mehring, Peter A. · Inventors: Garapetian, Varoujan; Mehring, Peter A.; Becker, Robert
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
In the memory access unit of the present invention the memory request, logic is centralized in the memory management unit (MMU). The MMU instructs the MCU, which interfaces directly with the DRAMs on the type of memory, access to perform. By centralizing the memory requests the MMU is able to, maintain an account of each memory access thereby providing the MMU the, means to determine if a memory access fulfills the requirements of a fast page mode access before a request is made to the MCU. The MMU comprises the row address comparator which can execute the row address comparison in parallel with the cache lookup. Therefore if the cache lookup determines a, memory access is required a …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed November 28, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 28, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 28, 2013.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.