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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2014
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Yohei Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuo Ishii, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0808 (2013.01); G06F 12/0804 (2013.01); G06F 12/0864 (2013.01); G06F 2212/301 (2013.01);
Abstract
A flush control apparatus controls a Set Associative cache memory apparatus. A flush control apparatus includes: a tag memory unit associating a tag identifier identifying a tag which associates a plurality of cache lines and tag information representing whether or not the tag is valid. It also includes a line memory unit, a way specification unit and a flush unit which flushes the way specified by the way specification unit.