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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 23, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Wei Hsu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711157 ; 711-5 ; 711173 ; 711150 ; 36523003 ;
Abstract
An array padding technique is described that increases memory throughput in the presence of dirty misses. The technique pads arrays so that the starting addresses of arrays within a target loop are separated by P memory banks where P is a rounded integer equal to the number of memory banks divided by the number of arrays. The number of banks of separation can be incremented or decremented by 1 to also avoid path conflicts due to the sharing of buses in a typical hierarchical memory subsystem.