Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Storage circuitry responsive to a tag-matching command
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Application No.: US16464019Application Date: 2017-09-15
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Publication No.: US10860495B2Publication Date: 2020-12-08
- Inventor: Andreas Hansson , Nikos Nikoleris , Wendy Arnott Elsasser
- 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: GR20160100608 20161129
- International Application: PCT/GB2017/052732 WO 20170915
- International Announcement: WO2018/100331 WO 20180607
- Main IPC: G06F12/08
- IPC: G06F12/08 ; G06F12/10 ; G06F12/0895 ; G06F12/0864 ; G11C11/16 ; G11C11/406

Abstract:
Storage circuitry comprises an array of storage locations arranged in rows and columns, a row buffer comprising a plurality of entries each to store information from a storage location at a corresponding column of an active row of the array, and comparison circuitry responsive to a tag-matching command specifying a tag value to compare the tag value with information stored in each of a subset of two or more entries of the row buffer. The comparison circuitry identifies which of the subset of entries, if any, is a matching entry storing information matching the tag value. This allows memory technologies such as DRAM to be used more efficiently as a set-associative cache.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190384718A1 STORAGE CIRCUITRY RESPONSIVE TO A TAG-MATCHING COMMAND Public/Granted day:2019-12-19
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