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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2005
Applicant:
Matthew Paul Elwood, Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
Matthew Paul Elwood, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
ARM Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A branch target buffer is provided which maintains its entries across context switches within a virtually addressed system. Branch mispredictions are detected for individual entries within the branch target buffer and those individual entries are invalidated.