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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2000
Subramaniam Maiyuran, Gold River, CA (US);
Vivek Garg, Rancho Cordova, CA (US);
Jagannath Keshava, Folsom, CA (US);
Salvador Palanca, Folsom, CA (US);
Subramaniam Maiyuran, Gold River, CA (US);
Vivek Garg, Rancho Cordova, CA (US);
Jagannath Keshava, Folsom, CA (US);
Salvador Palanca, Folsom, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device that has an integrated central processing unit (CPU) including a pre-fetch stride analyzer and an out-of-order engine is provided. The electronic device also has a graphics engine, having graphics memory, that is coupled to the integrated CPU. A main memory that is coupled to a memory controller is provided. The memory controller is also coupled to the CPU and the graphics engine. The device has a host address decoder coupled to the integrated CPU. A front side bus (FSB) is provided that is coupled to the integrated CPU and the host address decoder. Also provided is a plurality of memory components. Accordingly, either the plurality of memory components or the graphics memory can be shared to perform alternate memory functions. Additionally, a method is provided that determines allocation availability between memory components in an integrated computer processing unit. The method also shares an available memory component as a pre-fetch buffer and another available memory component as a victim cache.