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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:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
May. 06, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Pieter Van Der Wolf, Eindhoven, NL;
Pieter Struik, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
The processing circuit contains a cache management unit which keeps information about a stream of addresses among addresses accessed by the processor. The cache management unit updates a current address for the stream in response to progress of execution of the program. The cache management unit is make selected storage locations in the cache memory available for reuse, a storage location in the cache memory which is in use for the data corresponding to the particular address being made available for reuse dependent on a position of the particular address relative to the current address.