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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:
Jul. 24, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Philip G Emma, Danbury, CT (US);
Joshua W Knight, III, Mohegan Lake, NY (US);
James H Pomerene, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Rudolph N Rechtschaffen, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Frank J Sparacio, North Bergen, NJ (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364200 ; 36424342 ; 3642613 ; 3642617 ; 3642329 ; 3642631 ;
Abstract
Apparatus for fetching instructions in a computing system. A broadband branch history table is organized by cache line. The broadband branch history table determines from the history of branches the next cache line to be referenced and uses that information for prefetching lines into the cache.