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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paolo Faraboschi, Brighton, MA (US);
Alexander J. Starr, Acton, MA (US);
Geoffrey M. Brown, Watertown, MA (US);
Richard L. Ford, Lancaster, MA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
A cache flush controller, and an associated method, selectably flushes a memory cache of a data processor. The cache flush controller operates at a memory bus level of the data processor and operates to flush a selected line, or lines of the memory cache by writing arbitrary, selected values to the selected line or lines of the memory cache.