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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2003
Applicant:
Eric L. Severtson, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Inventor:
Eric L. Severtson, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A disk drive is disclosed for executing a program comprising a plurality of instructions. The disk drive comprises a primary memory for storing the instructions, and a cache memory for caching the instructions. The cache management is enhanced by not re-filling the cache due to accessing a non-sequential immediate operand.