DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF HETEROGENOUS MEMORY
First Claim
1. A method to allocate a type of integrated circuit memory to an application processed by a computing device, the method comprising:
- determining types of integrated circuit memory available for the application in the computing device, wherein the types of integrated circuit memory available include a first type of integrated circuit memory and a second type of integrated circuit memory;
receiving a request from the application to use the first type of integrated circuit memory; and
allocating the first type of integrated circuit memory to be used by the application in response to the request from the application.
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Abstract
A method of operating a computing device includes dynamically managing at least two types of memory based on workloads, or requests from different types of applications. A first type of memory may be high performance memory that may have a higher bandwidth, lower memory latency and/or lower power consumption than a second type of memory in the computing device. In an embodiment, the computing device includes a system on a chip (SoC) that includes Wide I/O DRAM positioned with one or more processor cores. A Low Power Double Data Rate 3 dynamic random access memory (LPDDR3 DRAM) memory is externally connected to the SoC or is an embedded part of the SoC. In embodiments, the computing device may be included in at least a cell phone, mobile device, embedded system, video game, media console, laptop computer, desktop computer, server and/or datacenter.
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20 Claims
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1. A method to allocate a type of integrated circuit memory to an application processed by a computing device, the method comprising:
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determining types of integrated circuit memory available for the application in the computing device, wherein the types of integrated circuit memory available include a first type of integrated circuit memory and a second type of integrated circuit memory; receiving a request from the application to use the first type of integrated circuit memory; and allocating the first type of integrated circuit memory to be used by the application in response to the request from the application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An apparatus comprising;
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one or more processors; a first processor readable memory having a first performance characteristics; a second processor readable memory having a second performance characteristic, wherein the first performance characteristic is better than the second performance characteristic; one or more software applications; and an operating system including processor readable instructions, wherein the one or more processors execute the processor readable instructions of the operating system to; determine whether one or more software applications requests usage of the first processor readable memory, determine an amount of processor readable memory the one or more software applications uses, and allow at least one of the one or more software applications access to the first processor readable memory in response to the request for usage of the first processor readable memory and the amount of processor readable memory the one or more software applications uses. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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16. One or more processor readable memory devices having instructions encoded thereon which when executed cause one or more processors to perform a method for allocating high performance memory to an application software program, the method comprising:
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receiving a request from application software program to use the high performance memory; receiving an amount of memory the application software program uses; determining an amount of high performance memory that is available; and allocating the high performance memory to the application software program in response to the amount of memory the application software program uses and the amount of high performance memory that is available. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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