Patent ID: 9164804
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: in relation to a memory operation, determining, by a memory device, available processing resources of a host device that is operatively coupled to the memory device, wherein the determining the available processing resources comprises checking one or more registers of the memory device, the one or more registers operable to store host device resource availability information that is updateable by the host device; and putting, by the memory device, at least one available processing resource of the available processing resources into use for performing at least part of the memory operation, wherein the at least one available processing resource comprises a digital signal processor (DSP) of the host device and the putting the DSP into use for performing the at least part of the memory operation includes transmitting, by the memory device, a request to the host device for the DSP to process data written temporarily to dynamic random access memory (DRAM) of the host device prior to writing the data from the host device to a memory of the memory device.