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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:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2022
Applicant:
Centaur Technology, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0811 (2016.01); G06F 12/0817 (2016.01); G06F 12/0853 (2016.01); G06F 12/0891 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 12/0817 (2013.01); G06F 12/0853 (2013.01); G06F 12/0891 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a microprocessor, comprising: plural cores, each of the cores comprising a level 1 (L1) cache and a level 2 (L2) cache; and a shared level 3 (L3) cache comprising plural L3 tag array entries, wherein a first portion of the plural L3 tag array entries is associated with data and a second portion of the plural L3 tag array entries is decoupled from data, wherein each L3 tag array entry comprises tag information and data zero information, the data zero information indicating whether any data associated with the tag information is known to be zero or not.