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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:
Sep. 22, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Farid A Yazdy, Belmont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395467 ; 364D / ; 395445 ; 395468 ; 395473 ; 395481 ; 395496 ;
Abstract
Systems and methods which provide a minimized address tenure to create more efficient memory transactions where the address is not needed for longer than the initial clock cycle in which it is used are described. The exceptions, for example, wherein the address is needed later during the transaction to perform a cache operation, are handled by reasserting the address using the cache controller. In this way, memory transactions are made more efficient but without the use of external latches conventionally used to preserve the deasserted address.