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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 27, 2014
Applicants:

Ray Charles Marshall, Harpenden, GB;

Joachim Fader, Munich, DE;

Stephan Herrmann, Markt Schwaben, DE;

Inventors:

Ray Charles Marshall, Harpenden, GB;

Joachim Fader, Munich, DE;

Stephan Herrmann, Markt Schwaben, DE;

Assignee:

NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0897 (2016.01); G06F 12/0804 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0897 (2013.01); G06F 12/0804 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1056 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device has a cache memory for temporarily storing contents of a buffer memory. The device has a mirror unit coupled between the cache memory and the buffer memory. The mirror unit is arranged for providing at least two buffer mirrors at respective different buffer mirror address ranges in the main address range by adapting the memory addressing. Due to the virtual mirrors data on a respective address in any of the respective different buffer mirror address ranges is the data of the buffer memory at a corresponding address in the buffer address range. The device enables processing of a subsequent set of data in the buffer memory via the cache memory without invalidating the cache by switching to a different buffer mirror.


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