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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Markus Buehler, Weil im Schoenbuch, DE;
Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow, Esslingen am Neckar, DE;
Arni Ingimundarson, Karlsruhe, DE;
Thilo Maurer, Stuttgart, DE;
Benedikt Rombach, Tübingen, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A buffer is configured to store a plurality of last addresses accessed by a processor core from a memory. A minimum distance extraction circuit determines distances of a current memory address accessed by the processor core from each of the plurality of last addresses in the buffer and determines a minimum distance from the distances. A limit determination circuit compares the minimum distance to each of a plurality of ranges of distances and selects a range of the plurality of ranges within which the minimum distance falls. Each of a plurality of counters of a counter circuit is associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of ranges. A counter of the plurality of counters is to be incremented corresponding to the selected range.