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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:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenneth C. Yeager, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
MIPS Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/34 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/34 ;
Abstract
A translation lookaside buffer for detecting and preventing conflicting virtual addresses from being stored therein is disclosed. Each entry in the buffer is associated with a switch which can be set and reset to enable and disable, respectively, a buffer entry. A switch associated with an existing entry will be reset if such entry conflicts with a new buffer entry.