Abstract:
A method and apparatus for a multi-ranked memory protocol. In some embodiments an apparatus may include a memory controller (MC), and a plurality of ranked dynamic random access memory (DRAM) devices interfaced with the MC, wherein timing and initiation operations between the MC and the plurality of ranked DRAM devices and between the plurality of ranked DRAM devices is controlled by the MC. In some embodiments, a method may include addressing a request to one of a plurality of ranked DRAM devices, sending the request from a MC interfaced with the plurality of ranked DRAM devices, and propagating the request from the MC through the plurality of ranked DRAM devices to the addressed ranked DRAM device MC, wherein the requests includes data associated therewith.
Abstract:
A method and system for partitioning television channels in a platform. A method involves creating partitions for a platform, associating each of one or more television channels with one of the partitions, determining a current television channel from the one or more television channels to display, and activating the partition associated with the current television channel.
Abstract:
A method and system for partitioning television channels in a platform. A method involves creating partitions for a platform, associating each of one or more television channels with one of the partitions, determining a current television channel from one or more television channels to display, and activating the partition associated with the current television channel.
Abstract:
An arrangement is provided for an external agent to initiate data prefetches from a system memory to a cache associated with a target processor, which needs the data to execute a program, in a computing system. When the external agent has data, it may create and issue a prefetch directive. The prefetch directive may be sent along with system interconnection transactions or sent as a separate transaction to devices including the target processor in the system. When receiving and recognizing the prefetch directive, a hardware prefetcher associated with the target processor may issue a request to the system memory to prefetch data to the cache. The target processor can access data in the cache more efficiently than it accesses data in the system memory. Some pre-processing may also be associated with the data prefetch.
Abstract:
In some embodiments a beginning portion of a disk drive file fragment is stored in a memory, and the beginning portion of the disk drive file fragment is accessed from the memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed.