Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Direct data move between DRAM and storage on a memory module
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Application No.: US15665246Application Date: 2017-07-31
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Publication No.: US10248328B2Publication Date: 2019-04-02
- Inventor: Hyun Lee , Sheng Wang
- Applicant: NETLIST, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Irvine
- Assignee: Netlist, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Netlist, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Irvine
- Agency: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F12/06 ; G06F12/08 ; G06F13/16 ; G06F13/40 ; G06F12/0897

Abstract:
A computer system comprises a processor, a memory module and input/output devices. The memory module includes a circuit board, a volatile memory unit mounted on the circuit board, a non-volatile memory unit mounted on the circuit board and a control circuit mounted on the circuit board. The volatile memory unit comprises DRAM devices, and the non-volatile memory unit comprises flash memory. The processor is configured to execute an operating system (OS) and an application program and to present a memory address space to the application program. The memory address space including a memory mapped input/output (MMIO) space mapped to the I/O devices, a pseudo MMIO (PMMIO) space mapped to the non-volatile memory unit, and a DRAM space mapped to the volatile memory unit, the PMMIO space including a system main memory local storage (MMLS) area and a memory channel storage area, wherein the DRAM space is partitioned into memory pages, and the MCS space is partitioned into storage blocks.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180113614A1 DIRECT DATA MOVE BETWEEN DRAM AND STORAGE ON A MEMORY MODULE Public/Granted day:2018-04-26
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