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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. 23, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
David DiMarco, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Jeffrey L. Miller, Vancouver, WA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/204 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/204 ;
Abstract
A tag RAM is coupled to an address bus that is adapted to carry a variable width address field. The tag RAM includes a memory section coupled to the address bus and a comparator coupled to the address bus and the memory section. The tag RAM further includes a selection module coupled to the address bus and coupled to the comparator. The selection module selects one or more bits of the address field as tag field bits depending on the width of the address field and the size of the cache memory coupled to the tag RAM.