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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gregory S. Mathews, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gary Hammond, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/214 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/214 ;
Abstract
A prevalidation content addressable memory, CAM, is used to pre-decode a virtual address region extension and enable it for use by a translation look-aside buffer, TLB. The prevalidation CAM removes the region extensions stored in region registers from a serial TLB look-up path.