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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2001
Mauricio Breternitz, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Roger A. Smith, Austin, TX (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
During a compressing portion, memory ( ) is divided into cache line blocks ( ). Each cache line block is compressed and modified by replacing address destinations of address indirection instructions with compressed address destinations. Each cache line block is modified to have a flow indirection instruction as the last instruction in each cache line. The compressed cache line blocks ( ) are stored in a memory ( ). During a decompression portion, a cache line ( ) is accessed based on an instruction pointer ( ) value. The cache line is decompressed and stored in cache. The cache tag is determined based on the instruction pointer ( ) value.