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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2021
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Martin John Robinson, Leighton Buzzard, GB;
Mark Landers, Hartwell, GB;
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Abstract
A memory interface for interfacing between a memory bus and a cache memory, comprising: a plurality of bus interfaces configured to transfer data between the memory bus and the cache memory; and a plurality of snoop processors configured to receive snoop requests from the memory bus; wherein each snoop processor is associated with a respective bus interface and each snoop processor is configured, on receiving a snoop request, to determine whether the snoop request relates to the bus interface associated with that snoop processor and to process the snoop request in dependence on that determination.