Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor device and method for prefetching to cache memory
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Application No.: US14439355Application Date: 2012-10-31
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Publication No.: US09892049B2Publication Date: 2018-02-13
- Inventor: Makoto Shindo
- Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Koutou-ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Koutou-ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/JP2012/078139 WO 20121031
- International Announcement: WO2014/068694 WO 20140508
- Main IPC: G06F12/08
- IPC: G06F12/08 ; G06F12/0862 ; G06F12/0864

Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a processor, a memory, a plurality of tags, a plurality of ways each of which can store a plurality of data of consecutive addresses of the memory in which a tag value stored in each tag of the plurality of tags is taken as a reference address, and a cache controller configured to determine whether a second way has an address change direction flag matching an address change direction flag of the first way and has a tag value continuous with a tag value of the first way in a direction opposite to a direction that the address change direction flag of the first way indicates and prefetch data indicated by a tag value continuous with the tag value of the first way in the direction that the address change direction flag indicates to the second way based on the result of the determination.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150293850A1 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREFETCHING TO CACHE MEMORY Public/Granted day:2015-10-15
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