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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1982
Filed:
Jan. 28, 1980
Jega A Arulpragasam, Stow, MA (US);
Robert A Giggi, Merrimac, NH (US);
Richard F Lary, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Daniel T Sullivan, Bolton, MA (US);
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Abstract
A cached multiprocessor system operates in an ordered pipeline timing sequence in which the time slot for use of the cache is made long enough to permit only one cache access. Further, the time slot for data transfers to and from the processors succeeds the time slot for accessing the cache. The sequence is optimized for transactions that require only one cache access, e.g., read operations that hit the cache. Transactions that require two cache accesses must complete the second cache access during a later available pipeline sequence. A processor indexed random access memory specifies when any given processor has a write operation outstanding for a location in the cache. This prevents the processor from reading the location before the write operation is completed.