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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2003
Gregory William Smaus, Austin, TX (US);
Mitchell Alsup, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory William Smaus, Austin, TX (US);
Mitchell Alsup, Austin, TX (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of methods and systems for implementing a microprocessor that fetches a group of instructions into instruction cache in response to a corresponding trace being evicted from the trace cache are disclosed. In some embodiments, a microprocessor may include an instruction cache, a trace cache, and a prefetch unit. In response to a trace being evicted from trace cache, the prefetch unit may fetch a line of instructions into instruction cache.
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