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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1995
Stephen William Mahin, Underhill, VT (US);
Kevin William McCullen, Jericho, VT (US);
Sebastian Theodore Ventrone, Jericho, VT (US);
Daniel Mathew Wronski, Essex Junction, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer processor architecture which employs an on-chip cache macro and an on-chip memory map is described. The memory map contains indicia of the cachability of different segments of off-chip memory, preferably along with an indication of the read/write status of each off-chip memory segment. A processor generated address signal is then compared on-chip with the memory map to ascertain whether the generated signal falls within a segment which is cachable or uncachable and which is read-only or read/write.