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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
May. 04, 2008
James J. Allen, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Steven K. Jenkins, Raleigh, NC (US);
James A. Mossman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael R. Trombley, Cary, NC (US);
James J. Allen, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Steven K. Jenkins, Raleigh, NC (US);
James A. Mossman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael R. Trombley, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design is provided. The design structure generally includes a computer system that includes a CPU, a memory controller, memory, a bus connecting the CPU, memory controller and memory, circuitry for providing a speculative read threshold corresponding to a selected percentage of the total number of reads that can be speculatively issued, and circuitry for intermixing demand reads and speculative reads in accordance with the speculative read threshold.