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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2007
Applicant:
Marc Spitzer, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Marc Spitzer, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
PMC-Sierra US, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A cache system includes a cache memory dedicated to service a number of sequencers with sequencer code. A number of cache managers are defined to direct placement of sequencer code portions into the cache memory. Also, each of the number of cache managers is defined to provide sequencer code from the cache memory to a respectively assigned sequencer. An external memory is defined to store a complete version of the sequencer code. A direct memory access (DMA) engine is defined to write sequencer code portions from the external memory to the cache memory, in accordance with direction from the number of cache managers.