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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2003
Applicant:
Frederic Boutaud, Belmont, MA (US);
Inventor:
Frederic Boutaud, Belmont, MA (US);
Assignee:
Mediatek, Inc., Hsin-Chu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and architecture accesses a unified memory in a micro-processing system having a two-phase clock. The unified memory is accessed during a first instruction cycle. When a program code discontinuity is encountered, the unified memory is accessed a first time during an instruction cycle with a dummy access. The unified memory is accessed a second time during the instruction cycle when a program code discontinuity is encountered with either a data access, as in the case of a last instruction of a loop, or an instruction access, as in the case of a jump instruction.