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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2013

Filed:

Sep. 07, 2006
Applicants:

Alexandre E. Eichenberger, Chappaqua, NY (US);

John Kevin Patrick O'brien, South Salem, NY (US);

Tao Zhang, Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Alexandre E. Eichenberger, Chappaqua, NY (US);

John Kevin Patrick O'Brien, South Salem, NY (US);

Tao Zhang, Atlanta, GA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Process, cache memory, computer product and system for loading data associated with a requested address in a software cache. The process includes loading address tags associated with a set in a cache directory using a Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operation, determining a position of the requested address in the set using a SIMD comparison, and determining an actual data value associated with the position of the requested address in the set.


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