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Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020

Filed:

May. 06, 2015
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sukalpa Biswas, Fremont, CA (US);

Harshavardhan Kaushikkar, San Jose, CA (US);

Munetoshi Fukami, Newark, CA (US);

Gurjeet S. Saund, Saratoga, CA (US);

Manu Gulati, Saratoga, CA (US);

Shinye Shiu, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0815 (2016.01); G06F 12/0813 (2016.01); G06F 9/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0815 (2013.01); G06F 9/528 (2013.01); G06F 12/0813 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1016 (2013.01); G06F 2212/622 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus for processing memory requests from a functional unit in a computing system is disclosed. The apparatus may include an interface that may be configured to receive a request from the functional. Circuitry may be configured initiate a speculative read access command to a memory in response to a determination that the received request is a request for data from the memory. The circuitry may be further configured to determine, in parallel with the speculative read access, if the speculative read will result in an ordering or coherence violation.


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