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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:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2005
Applicants:
Yen-cheng Liu, Portland, OR (US);
Krishnakanth Sistla, Hillsboro, OR (US);
George Cai, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Ganapati Srinivasa, Portland, OR (US);
Geeyarpuram Santhanakrishnan, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Inventors:
Yen-Cheng Liu, Portland, OR (US);
Krishnakanth Sistla, Hillsboro, OR (US);
George Cai, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Ganapati Srinivasa, Portland, OR (US);
Geeyarpuram Santhanakrishnan, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to manage credits in a computing system with multiple banks of shared cache are described. In one embodiment, a credit request from a processor core is translated into a physical credit that corresponds to one of the multiple banks of shared cache.