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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2021
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Yasuo Ishii, Austin, TX (US);
Chang Joo Lee, Austin, TX (US);
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
There is provided a data processing apparatus and method for storing a plurality of prediction cache entries in a prediction cache with associativity greater than one comprising a plurality of prediction cache ways, each of the plurality of prediction entries defining an association between a prediction cache lookup address and target information; and storing a plurality of stream entries, each stream entry corresponding to a sequence of prediction cache lookup addresses and comprising: a stream identifier defined by two or more sequential prediction cache lookup addresses of the sequence, and a plurality of sequential way predictions, each way prediction of the plurality of sequential way predictions defining, for a given position in the sequence of prediction cache lookup addresses, a prediction cache way to be looked up in the prediction cache to identify a prediction entry associated with the prediction cache lookup address at the given position in the sequence.