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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Henry Stracovsky, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/210 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/210 ;
Abstract
According to the present invention, methods and apparatus for reducing memory access latency are disclosed. When a new entry is made to translation look aside buffer, the new TLB entry points to a corresponding TLB page of memory. Concurrently with the updating of the TLB, the TLB page is moved temporally closer to a processor by storing the TLB page in a TLB page cache. The TLB page cache is temporally closer to the processor than is a main memory.