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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2020
Applicant:
Centaur Technology, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Thomas C. McDonald, Austin, TX (US);
John Duncan, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0875 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0875 (2013.01); G06F 2212/452 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a microprocessor, comprising: an instruction cache configured to receive an instruction fetch comprising a first byte portion and a second byte portion; a side cache tag array configured to signal further processing of the second byte portion in addition to the first byte portion based on a hit of the side cache tag array; and a side cache data array configured to store instruction data for the second byte portion.