Patent ID: 7617350

Claim:
A carrier comprising at least a portion of a daisy chain of memory chips, the daisy chain of memory chips further coupled to a memory controller; wherein each memory chip in the daisy chain of memory chips is serially connected by point to point address/command bus links; each memory chip is configured to receive an address/command word on an address/command bus link, determine if the address/command word is directed to that memory chip; and, if so, the memory chip accesses an array on the memory chip; if not, the memory chip re-drives the address/command word to a subsequent memory chip in the daisy chain of memory chips using an address/command bus link connected to the subsequent memory chip; the address/command word further comprising: a command; a packet ID assigned by the memory controller; and an address; each memory chip is further configured to receive and re-transmit a data word on a serially connected point to point data bus, the data word further comprising a packet ID assigned by the memory controller, each memory chip in the daisy chain of memory chips is able to associate the address/command word and the data word using the packet ID in the address/command word and the packet ID in the data word.