Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dual-modal memory interface controller
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Application No.: US17072581Application Date: 2020-10-16
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Publication No.: US11604744B2Publication Date: 2023-03-14
- Inventor: Yuhao Wang , Wei Han , Dimin Niu , Lide Duan , Shuangchen Li , Fei Xue , Hongzhong Zheng
- Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
- Applicant Address: KY Grand Cayman
- Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
- Current Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
- Current Assignee Address: KY Grand Cayman
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F13/16
- IPC: G06F13/16 ; G06F13/38 ; G06F9/30

Abstract:
A dual-model memory interface of a computing system is provided, configurable to present memory interfaces having differently-graded bandwidth capacity to different processors of the computing system. A mode switch controller of the memory interface controller, based on at least an arbitration rule written to a configuration register, switches the memory interface controller between a narrow-band mode and a wide-band mode. In each mode, the memory interface controller disables either a plurality of narrow-band memory interfaces of the memory interface controller according to a first bus standard, or a wide-band memory interface of the memory interface controller according to a second bus standard. The memory interface controller virtualizes a plurality of system memory units of the computing system as a virtual wide-band memory unit according to the second bus standard, or virtualizes a system memory unit of the computing system as a virtual narrow-band memory unit according to the first bus standard.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220121586A1 DUAL-MODAL MEMORY INTERFACE CONTROLLER Public/Granted day:2022-04-21
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