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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1997
Yuji Sugaya, Hitachinaka, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A CPU and a DMA device employ in common an address area from which data cannot be loaded into a cache memory. A read buffer memory and a write buffer memory loading therein data read from and written into that address area are provided. In read access from the CPU or DMA device to the common address area, if data to be accessed exists in any buffer memory, the data in the buffer memory is transferred to the CPU or DMA device. If data to be accessed does not exist in any buffer memory, data at addresses different from the read access address from the CPU or DMA device only in lower bits of fixed length is read from the main memory unit and then loaded into the buffer memory after performing data error checking and correcting of the read data.