Patent ID: 11921626
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A memory access method of a processing-in-memory (PIM) device for a computing device, the method comprising:
reading offset information from a register of the PIM device; and
by an internal processor of the PIM device:
receiving a processor-in-memory (PIM) instruction and a reference physical address of a memory of the memory device from a memory controller, of the computing device, that is exterior of the PIM device, or receiving the instruction from the memory controller and the reference physical addressor a memory management unit (MMU), of the computing device, that is exterior of the PIM device;

determining an offset physical address of the memory based on the read offset information;
determining a target physical address of the memory based on the reference physical address and the offset physical address; and
performing the instruction by accessing the target physical address and performing a PIM operation, including one or more calculations involving information obtained by the accessing of the target physical address, according to the instruction.