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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2016
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Suresh Kumar Venkumahanti, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen Robert Shannon, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/0884 (2016.01); G06F 12/0811 (2016.01); G06F 12/0846 (2016.01); G06F 12/0855 (2016.01); G06F 12/0877 (2016.01); G06F 12/0864 (2016.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0884 (2013.01); G06F 9/30189 (2013.01); G06F 9/3802 (2013.01); G06F 9/3824 (2013.01); G06F 9/3851 (2013.01); G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 12/0846 (2013.01); G06F 12/0855 (2013.01); G06F 12/0857 (2013.01); G06F 12/0864 (2013.01); G06F 12/0877 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1028 (2013.01); G06F 2212/283 (2013.01); G06F 2212/603 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6012 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1225 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus includes an access mode selection circuit configured to select a cache access mode based on a number of instructions stored at an issue queue, a number of active threads of an execution unit coupled to a cache, or both. The access mode selection circuit is further configured to generate an access mode signal based on the selected cache access mode. The apparatus further includes an address generation circuit configured to perform a cache access based on the access mode signal.