Patent 7263587 was granted and assigned to Zoran Corporation on August, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A unified memory controller (UMC) is disclosed. The UMC may be used in a digital television (DTV) receiver. The UMC allows the DTV receiver to use a unified memory. The UMC accepts memory requests from various clients, and determines which requests should receive priority access to the unified memory.