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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2022
Applicant:
Centaur Technology, Inc., AUSTIN, TX (US);
Inventors:
Douglas Raye Reed, Austin, TX (US);
Akarsh Dolthatta Hebbar, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/0862 (2016.01); G06F 12/0891 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 9/30047 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 12/0238 (2013.01); G06F 12/0891 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a bounding box prefetch unit in a microprocessor, the bounding box prefetch unit comprising: storage comprising a plurality of active prefetcher state entries for storing state information for a corresponding plurality of access streams associated with load requests, and a corresponding plurality of prediction logic; and a prefetcher state cache comprising plural prefetcher state entries that do not match any of the active prefetcher state entries.