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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1999
Marc Tremblay, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andre Kowalczyk, San Jose, CA (US);
Anup S. Tirumala, San Jose, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A shared write back buffer for storing data from a data cache to be written back to memory. The shared write back buffer includes a plurality of ports, each port being associated with one of a plurality of processing units. All processing units in the plurality share the write back buffer. The shared write back buffer further includes a data register for storing data provided through the input ports, an address register for storing addresses associated with the data provided through the input ports, and a single output port for providing the data to the associated addresses in memory.