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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:
Feb. 10, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Deepak Verma, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Assignee:
VLSI Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395607 ; 395611 ; 395612 ; 395800 ;
Abstract
A fully associative cache memory has a finite state machine which creates and maintains a linked list structure within the cache. This linked list structure allows the fully associative cache memory to be implemented in a structure other than a complex FIFO arrangement, as is typically required by systems of the prior art.