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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2004
Applicants:
William C. Moyer, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
Craig D. Shaw, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
William C. Moyer, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
Craig D. Shaw, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided for prefetching in a data processing system (). The data processing system () has a bus master () and a memory controller () coupled to a bus (). A memory () is coupled to the memory controller (). In the data processing system () an address is driven onto the bus (). Before the address is qualified, data corresponding to the address is prefetched. Prefetching the data before the address is qualified allows prefetches to be accomplished sooner.