CACHED MEMORY SYSTEM AND CACHE CONTROLLER FOR EMBEDDED DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR

    公开(公告)号:SG151304A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-04-30

    申请号:SG2009020108

    申请日:2005-03-11

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: CACHED MEMORY SYSTEM AND CACHE CONTROLLER FOR EMBEDDED DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR A cached memory system that can handle high-rate input data and ensure that an embedded DSP can meet real-time constraints is described. The cached memory system includes a cache memory located close to a processor core, an on-chip memory at the next higher memory level, and an external main memory at the topmost memory level. A cache controller handles paging of instructions and data between the cache memory and the on-chip memory for cache misses. A direct memory exchange (DME) controller handles user-controlled paging between the on-chip memory and the external memory. A user/programmer can arrange to have the instructions and data required by the processor core to be present in the on-chip memory well in advance of when they are actually needed by the processor core.

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