Patent ID: 7990798

Claim:
An integrated circuit including a memory module comprising: an even number of at least four memory banks, each memory bank having a plurality of memory cells, each memory bank comprising a column path region, each two memory banks forming a memory bank region and having a common data port, the column path region of each of the two memory banks including a data in/out connection to the common data port, the two memory banks of the memory bank region being alternately connected to a m-bit data bus via the common data port, each memory bank being subdivided into memory bank segments, each two memory bank segments forming a memory bank group and sharing a common data bus in the column path region to the common data port, the memory banks being classified into two groups, each group comprising a memory bank of each memory bank region; and a selection device, the selection device selecting one of the two groups of memory banks, and a group of i memory cells within one of the two memory bank segments of memory bank groups of the memory banks of the selected group of memory banks to access the selected i memory cells per one stroke via the associated m-bit data buses of the memory groups, m being equal to an integer multiple of i, and i and m being positive integers.