Inventors:
Manuel Lu - Union City CA
Ramesh Mogili - Santa Clara CA
Assignee:
Oak Technology, Inc. - Sunnyvale CA
International Classification:
G06F 1206
Abstract:
An electronic system is described herein, the apparatus including at least two devices requiring access to memory, a memory controller, and a memory, the memory being coupled to an output of the memory controller. The memory controller includes at least one input and at least one output; one memory controller input being operatively coupled to at least one of the devices through a shared bus, and one memory controller output being operatively coupled to at least one device through a shared bus. The shared bus includes a plurality of device select lines, a plurality of address lines, a plurality of write data lines, a plurality of read data lines, a plurality of read select lines, and at least two device_request lines.