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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
David A. Courtright, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ryan C. Kinter, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Mips Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
A low-latency scratchpad RAM memory system is disclosed. The scratchpad RAM memory system can be accessed in parallel to a primary cache. Parallel access to the scratchpad RAM memory can be designed to be independent of a corresponding cache tag RAM, thereby enabling the scratchpad RAM memory to be sized to any specification, independent of the size of the primary cache data RAMs.