Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Extended line width memory-side cache systems and methods
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Application No.: US16884937Application Date: 2020-05-27
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Publication No.: US10831377B2Publication Date: 2020-11-10
- Inventor: Richard C. Murphy , Anton Korzh , Stephen S. Pawlowski
- Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US ID Boise
- Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US ID Boise
- Agency: Fletcher Yoder, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F12/0815 ; G06F12/0811

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides techniques for implementing an apparatus, which includes processing circuitry that performs an operation based on target data block, a processor-side cache that implements a first cache line, memory-side cache that implements a second cache line having line width greater than the first cache line, and a memory array. The apparatus includes one or more memory controllers that, when the target data block results in a cache miss, determine a row address that identifies a memory cell row as storing the target data block, instruct the memory array to successively output multiple data blocks from the memory cell row to enable the memory-side cache to store each of the multiple data blocks in the second cache line, and instruct the memory-side cache to output the target data block to a coherency bus to enable the processing circuitry to perform the operation based on the target data block.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200285400A1 EXTENDED LINE WIDTH MEMORY-SIDE CACHE SYSTEMS AND METHODS Public/Granted day:2020-09-10
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