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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:
Jun. 25, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 11, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas J Riordan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Paul S Ries, San Jose, CA (US);
Edwin L Hudson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Earl A Killian, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Mips Computer Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364200 ; 3642434 ; 36424341 ;
Abstract
A processor controlled interface between a processor, instruction cache, and main memory provides for simultaneously refilling the cache with an instruction block from main memory and processing the instructions in the block while they are being written to the cache.