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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:
Apr. 25, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thoi Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Richard Nicholas Iachetta, Jr, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Yashwant Sakarchand Kothari, Austin, TX (US);
Allan Rowe Steel, Austin, TX (US);
Keith Alan Cox, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711100 ; 711118 ; 711119 ; 711126 ; 395427 ; 39550044 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for detecting and identifying the attributes of level-2 (L2) memory cache modules in a computer system. An ID Module is attached to each L2 cache memory module containing memory attribute information such as size, presence or absence of parity, synchronous or asynchronous access ability, electrical timing, etc. The information is accessible using a parallel or serial interface.