Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Set selection of a set-associative storage container
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Application No.: US15249796Application Date: 2016-08-29
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Publication No.: US09606927B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Steven R. Carlough , Adam B. Collura
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Main IPC: G06F12/08
- IPC: G06F12/08 ; G06F12/0864

Abstract:
A system includes a set-associative storage container and a processor configured to generate a vector that is a random number. Two or more residue functions are applied to the vector that each produces a state signal including a different number of states based on the vector. A set status is determined that identifies whether each set of the set-associative storage container is enabled or disabled. One of the state signals is selected that has a same number of states as a number of the sets that are enabled. The selected state signal is mapped to the sets that are enabled to assign each of the states of the selected state signal to a corresponding one of the sets that are enabled. A set selection of the set-associative storage container is output based on the mapping to randomly select one of the sets that are enabled from the set-associative storage container.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160357682A1 SET SELECTION OF A SET-ASSOCIATIVE STORAGE CONTAINER Public/Granted day:2016-12-08
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