Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus of cache access to a data array with locality-dependent latency characteristics
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Application No.: US16142330Application Date: 2018-09-26
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Publication No.: US10761988B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Radhika Sanjeev Jagtap , Nikos Nikoleris , Andreas Lars Sandberg , Stephan Diestelhorst
- Applicant: Arm Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: Arm Limited
- Current Assignee: Arm Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@4bc9fd3b
- Main IPC: G06F12/0864
- IPC: G06F12/0864 ; G06F12/1045

Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus comprising a data array having locality-dependent latency characteristics such that an access to an open unit of the data array has a lower latency than an access to a closed unit of the data array. Set associative cache indexing circuitry determines, in response to a request for data associated with a target address, a cache set index. Mapping circuitry identifies, in response to the index, a set of data array locations corresponding to the index, according to a mapping in which a given unit of the data array comprises locations corresponding to a plurality of consecutive indices, and at least two locations of the set of locations corresponding to the same index are in different units of the data array. Cache access circuitry accesses said data from one of the set of data array locations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200034303A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS OF MAPPING OR REPLACEMENT FOR DATA ARRAY LOCATIONS OF A CACHE MEMORY Public/Granted day:2020-01-30
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