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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:
Jan. 03, 1995
Filed:
Oct. 11, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395425 ; 364239 ;
Abstract
An improvement in a microprocessor having a cache memory providing strong and weak write ordering modes. The microprocessor includes a terminal for receiving a signal indicating whether an external write buffer is empty and an internal signal indicating whether an internal write buffer is empty. Operation of the microprocessor is halted in the strong ordering mode if the write buffers are not empty and a hit condition occurs during a write cycle until the buffers are empty.