Lg Electronics Inc.

Hoshik Kim

Seungyoon Peter Song

Arkadi Avrukin

Yongjae Hong

Jungsook Lee

Michael Frank

Tariq Afzal

Thomas Zou

The present invention relates Control circuitry that includes a circuit configured to receive a system level cache (SLC) dirty-set request comprising a dirty set flag, a memory address, and an address of a cache line (LA) in a SLC data array. The circuitry converts the memory address to a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) page address (PA) which identifies a DRAM bank and a DRAM page and identifies either a hit, or no hit, is present according to whether the DRAM PA matches with PA address in any valid entry in a dirty line links cache (DLL$).

Cache self-clean engine

A control circuit for controlling memory prefetch requests to system level cache (SLC). The control circuit includes a circuit identifying memory access requests received at the system level cache (SLC), where each of the memory access requests includes an address (ANEXT) of memory to be accessed. Another circuit associates a tracker with each of the memory access streams. A further circuit performs tracking for the memory access streams by: when the status is tracking and the address (ANEXT) points to an interval between the current address (ACURR) and the last prefetched address (ALAST), issuing a prefetch request to the SLC; and when the status is tracking, and distance (ADIST) between the current address (ACURR) and the last prefetched address (ALAST) is greater than a specified maximum prefetch for the associated tracker, waiting for further requests to control a prefetch process.

Autonomous prefetch engine

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Seoul, South Korea

Hoshik Kim