Combining the address-mapping and page-referencing steps in a memory controller

A method and apparatus for parallelizing address-mapping and page referencing in a memory controller. The page referencing may apply an input address to two separate content addressable memory components along with masks from a configuration register identifying rank-bank bits, page status bits and non-column bits. The content addressable memories each determine if matching content is present generating a 'hit' or 'miss.' The hit and miss indicators are applied to combinational logic to determine whether to generate a CAS, RAS-CAS or PRE-RAS-CAS indicator.