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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2010
Applicants:
Hong-yi Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
Geoffrey K. Yung, Belmont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Hong-Yi Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
Geoffrey K. Yung, Belmont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A digital system that connects to a bus that employs physical addresses comprises a processing core. A level one (L1) cache communicates with the processing core. A level two (L2) cache communicates with the L1 cache. Both the L1 cache and the L2 cache are indexed by virtual addresses and tagged with virtual addresses. A bus unit communicates with the L2 cache and with the bus.