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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2017
Applicant:
Toshiba Memory Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Seiji Maeda, Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2016.01); G06F 12/0895 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 12/0895 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6022 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to an embodiment, a cache unit includes: a first memory configured to temporarily hold data and an address of the data, a second memory configured to temporarily hold an address of particular data set in advance, and a controller configured to, when an instruction to load the data is made for a first specified address, search for a storage destination of the first specified address, output the data of the first specified address if the storage destination is the first memory, and output the particular data if the storage destination is the second memory.