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Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 21, 2021
Applicant:

Realtek Semiconductor Corporation, Hsinchu, TW;

Inventor:

Yen-Ju Lu, Hsinchu, TW;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0815 (2016.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0815 (2013.01); G06F 16/9027 (2019.01); G06F 2212/1041 (2013.01);
Abstract

A linked list searching method and device are configured to search a linked list by using a cache memory. The method includes the operations of: writing the linked list in a memory; writing the data of a first node in a first row of a tag memory of the cache memory, and writing an address of the first node in a first row of a data memory of the cache memory; writing the data of a second node in a second row of the tag memory, and writing the address of the second node in a second row of the data memory; and searching the data of the second node in the tag memory to directly retrieve the address of the second node when searching the address of the second node in the linked list according to the data of the second node.


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