Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and device for accessing a cache memory
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Application No.: US15263383Application Date: 2016-09-13
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Publication No.: US10579522B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Chieh-Jen Cheng , Chuan-Hua Chang
- Applicant: ANDES TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: ANDES TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: ANDES TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: JCIPRNET
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F12/0802 ; G06F12/0862 ; G06F12/1027

Abstract:
A method and a device for accessing a cache memory are provided. The method comprises: generating, by a bit prediction unit (BPU), a prediction bit corresponding to an instruction instructing to access the cache memory from a central processing unit (CPU); generating, by an instruction execution unit (IEU), a virtual address corresponding to the instruction; generating, by a load/store unit (LSU), a predicted cache index according to the prediction bit and a part of a virtual page offset of the virtual address; and reading, by the LSU, data from the cache memory by using the predicted cache index. Therefore, the maximum size of the cache memory could be increased.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180074957A1 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACCESSING A CACHE MEMORY Public/Granted day:2018-03-15
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