Regulating voltage responsive to the shortest aggregate distance to the installed memory modules
View Patent ↗A method includes regulating voltage to a memory system responsive to a voltage signal received at a voltage feedback line, wherein the memory system includes a plurality of voltage sense line pairs in different locations within the memory system. The method further includes identifying a location of each of a plurality of installed memory modules present in the memory system. Still further, the method includes identifying a voltage sense line pair that provides a shortest aggregate distance to each of the installed memory modules, and then regulating voltage to the memory system responsive to the identified voltage sense line pair.
1. A method comprising:
regulating voltage to a memory system responsive to a voltage signal received at a voltage feedback line, wherein the memory system includes a plurality of voltage sense line pairs in different locations within the memory system;
identifying a location of each of a plurality of installed memory modules present in the memory system;
identifying a voltage sense line pair that provides a shortest aggregate distance from the identified voltage sense line pair to each of the installed memory modules; and then
regulating voltage to the memory system responsive to the identified voltage sense line pair.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
identifying the voltage sense line pair in consideration of an expected current to each of the installed memory modules.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the voltage sense line pairs is located in contact with a voltage distribution plane at a memory module socket.
4. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
identifying a location of each of a plurality of installed memory modules present in a memory system, wherein the memory system includes a plurality of voltage sense line pairs in different locations within the memory system;
identifying one of the voltage sense line pairs that provides a shortest aggregate distance from the identified voltage sense line pair to each of the installed memory modules; and
causing a voltage regulator to control voltage to the memory system responsive to the identified voltage sense line pair.
5. The computer program product of claim 4 , further comprising:
identifying the voltage sense line pair in consideration of an expected current to each of the installed memory modules.
6. The computer program product of claim 4 , wherein each of the voltage sense line pairs is located in contact with a voltage distribution plane at a memory module socket.