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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2019
Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Shanghai, CN;
Xianpei Zheng, Shanghai, CN;
Zhongmin Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Weilin Wang, Shanghai, CN;
Jiin Lai, Shanghai, CN;
Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Shanghai, CN;
Abstract
The disclosure provides a data prefetching auxiliary circuit, a data prefetching method, and a microprocessor. The data prefetching auxiliary circuit includes a stride calculating circuit, a comparing module, a stride selecting module, and a prefetching output module. The stride calculating circuit receives an access address to calculate and provide a stride. The comparing module receives the access address and the stride, generates a reference address based on a first multiple, the access address and the stride, determines whether the reference address matches any of a plurality of history access addresses, and generates and outputs a hit indicating bit value. The stride selecting module receives the hit indicating bit value, and determines whether to output the hit indicating bit value based on a prefetch enabling bit value. The prefetching output module determines a prefetch address according to the output of the stride selecting module.