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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:
Dec. 09, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Edward T Grochowski, San Jose, CA (US);
Mustafiz R Choudhury, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395452 ; 395458 ; 395467 ; 395455 ; 395453 ; 395472 ; 36523005 ;
Abstract
A cache memory is provided with a plurality of address ports and a corresponding plurality of tag ports for use with multiple pipes in a pipelined system. One of the address ports is dedicated to snooping and the remaining address ports provide concurrent access to the cache for references to one or more independent addresses respectively issued by one or more pipes. A tag port is provided for each of the address ports to provide concurrent hit/miss status for each address.