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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2005
Fong Pong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Fong Pong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of a method and system for an on-chip configurable data RAM for fast memory and pseudo associative caches are provided. Memory banks of configurable data RAM integrated within a chip may be configured to operate as fast on-chip memory or on-chip level 2 cache memory. A set associativity of the on-chip level 2 cache memory may be same after configuring the memory banks as prior to the configuring. The configuring may occur during initialization of the memory banks, and may adjusted the amount of the on-chip level 2 cache. The memory banks configured to operate as on-chip level 2 cache memory or as fast on-chip memory may be dynamically enabled by a memory address.