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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2002
Sang-hyun Park, Hwasung, KR;
Seh-woong Jeong, Seoul, KR;
Shin-dug Kim, Goyang, KR;
Jung-hoon Lee, Goyang, KR;
Sang-hyun Park, Hwasung, KR;
Seh-Woong Jeong, Seoul, KR;
Shin-dug Kim, Goyang, KR;
Jung-Hoon Lee, Goyang, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Abstract
A translation look-aside buffer (TLB) capable of reducing power consumption and improving performance of a memory is provided. The fully-associative TLB which converts a virtual address into a physical address, comprises a first TLB having a plurality of banks; a second TLB having a plurality of entries, each of which having one virtual page number and 2physical page numbers, wherein N is a natural number; and a selection circuit for outputting an output signal of the first TLB to the second TLB in response to a selection signal, wherein each bank of the first TLB has a plurality of entries, each of which has one virtual page number and one physical page number. The size of a page indicated by a virtual page number of the first TLB is different from the size of a page indicated by a virtual page number of the second TLB.