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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
May. 30, 2023
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Darshan Kumar Nandanwar, Bangalore, IN;
Kartik Gunvantbhai Desai, Savarkundla, IN;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Optimizing cache energy consumption in processor-based devices is disclosed herein. In some aspects, a processor-based device comprises a way lookup table (WLUT) circuit that is configured to receive an effective address (EA) for a memory access request. The WLUT circuit determines that a tag portion of the EA corresponds to a tag of a WLUT entry among a plurality of WLUT entries. In response, the WLUT circuit transmits a predicted way indicator of the WLUT entry to a cache controller. The cache controller accesses, in a set among a plurality of sets of a cache memory device corresponding to a set portion of the EA, only a predicted tag way among a plurality of tag ways of the cache memory device indicated by the predicted way indicator and only a predicted data way among a plurality of data ways of the cache memory device indicated by the predicted way indicator.